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Religious Imagery

Sacrilege

Appears in 1 song

loml
The Tortured Poets Department · 2024

a cinephile who likes to sin

The phrase introduces deliberate religious transgression — sinning not by accident but by disposition and preference. This connects to the album-wide religious martyrdom imagery in TTPD: dying for someone's sins, the holy ghost, rolling the stone away, crucifixion. In loml specifically it suggests the speaker entered the relationship knowing it was a transgression and chose it anyway.

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