Resurrection By Erection

The lyrics turn the idea of resurrection into a deliberately crude sexual joke. A speaker claims that sexual arousal can defeat death, mixing religious language with bodily desire. The tone is comic, theatrical, and provocative rather than solemn. As the song develops, the repeated chorus and increasingly urgent cries make the fantasy sound like a mock-serious promise of eternal life.

Several images create this contrast. “Purgatory,” “the dead,” and “angels” belong to a religious picture of the afterlife, while “flesh and bone” and the repeated references to an erection bring the idea down to the body. “Raise your phallus to the sky” echoes the image of raising one’s arms in prayer or praise, but changes it into an explicit sexual gesture. “Before we turn to dust” points to human mortality, giving the joke a recognizable fear beneath its silliness.

The lyrics can be read as parodying both religious promises of life after death and the impulse to treat sexual pleasure as a kind of salvation. They may also simply aim for shock and comic exaggeration; the song does not clearly offer a serious belief or argument. The repeated word “resurrection” keeps the central idea intentionally absurd, while the mortality imagery leaves a faintly serious question about how people respond to death.