Exploring the Lyrics - Over the Rhine's song "The Trumpet Child"

Ever get the feeling that you need a bible scholar to decipher a well-written song? Well, someone with the proper background has gone in-depth on the lyrics to "The Trumpet Child" by Over the Rhine. It's worth reading if you like the song - quite a few of the thoughts in that series of blog posts are really interesting and non-obvious to us laypeople.