yup! (Sorcha) I believe you are right. Wasn't there something to that effect in the liner notes? Maybe I dreamed it. Now I kinda see the alabaster stones as an altar, which gives the song a truly creepy aspect. Especially after the reference to you, me, and the Devil making three, a sort of AntiTrinity?! Given the setting it is sung in (a variation of the scene with salvation as it's theme?) and the connection to the sirens in Homer's epic... Didn't leave nobody but the baby.

All the sinners devoured (only the bones are left) and only the innocent survives.

CB