's Satan as the song lyrics are uncovered. The character has been in love and may have problems with his sanity; he is decidedly more complex than just another devil. Perhaps the largest mark of compassion on the part of the speaker is what she calls him; he is not called Satan. The speaker regards Father Lucifer practically as a priest, however, the complexity of the song is not that she is confessing to him, but that their roles are reversed to some extent. "He says he reckons I'm a watercolour stain/ he says I run and then I run from him" represents the relat! ionship that they maintain (Amos, Boys for Pele). Father Lucifer acknowledges her only as the stain from a watercolour -a delicate medium that is difficult to control. A few lines more and we see how their relationship has changed: "He wiped a tear/and then he threw away our appleseed" (Amos, Boys for Pele). The Christian myth brings itself full circle; Father Lucifer suffers from defeat and can not bear to bring himself up to attempt the same task again -at least n
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