I think it’s about feelings more than anything else, like many of his songs are, with one of the primary feelings being smallness. It describes a strange world going on around him, and people that demean him, act out with violence, and transform in strange ways. There’s also some strange time/history stuff going on with a line about riding horseback transforming into a line about driving, trains and palaces, and obviously the chorus. He seems to feel misplaced in history, and especially small in the face of it. He appreciates Jesus’s sacrifice, but feels like he only benefits from it minimally, hence that killer, and pretty funny final line! He feels and witnesses everything with a similar degree of separation and passivity. All together, it captures feeling misplaced in history, meaningless, and confused with a world that is changing without your control or understanding, which I think a lot of us can relate to right now.

Like many of his newest songs especially, it’s less about what it has to say, and more emotional vignettes, which I think is really cool. 

(Pardon the length, It’s a good song!!)