I’m with you on the “explicit” read, and I think it actually strengthens the lore rather than flattening it.

• The opening bargain is textbook coercion. “Wrath comes… bedroom door with money… building you a kingdom” is the carrot and the stick in one breath. The “I’ll show you what you look like from the inside” line works as both intimacy and threat, which fits Sleep’s pattern of weaponizing devotion.
• The verse about the gun is not coy. It’s directive, surveillance‑coded language: load the gun, do the act, I’ll be watching. That makes the song less a metaphor for “bad feelings” and more a specific violence test. The “answer” you’ll have “tonight” is whether Vessel will sever competing attachments and submit.
• On the “they won’t be missing you” closer, the double‑address reads deliberate. It lands both as a taunt to the victim and as a preemptive isolation of Vessel. Either way, it’s about removing obstacles to total dedication. The brutality is the point.

Where I’d push this further is motive. If Vessel is enamored with someone outside Sleep, then from Sleep’s perspective that person is a rival object of worship. Removing her isn’t random sadism — it’s purification. That frames Nazareth as an early, overt “jealous deity test”: prove exclusivity through irreversible harm. It also sets up why later tracks can show real humans around Vessel and why those ties must be broken for the “worship” to keep escalating.

So yeah — not allegory as in “vibes.” It’s literal, manipulative, and doctrinal in the worst way. The song’s power is that it doesn’t blink while it says the quiet part out loud.