Could be a reference to crank (speed), which is why the character exists in a dream, but cannot lay down or sleep. Or, alternately, it could be the idea that he is a dreamer, a "crank" or nutjob, in other people's eyes, because he exists locked into his own dream world for protection. Or both. The "small partition" could be his mind, his isolation, his solo dream, his insomnia, or a drug addiction. Or all of them. Alternately, it is definitely about an addiction to introspective isolation and living in a fantasy world/prison of one's own creation, whether or not drugs were involved. Long live E minor!

Possible religious meaning. They could be saying, as in Get Born Again, that Christ is still dead (possibly also the man in the box), or that we are the man in the box hoping that someone (ie, a religious figure) will save us from the horror of knowing that death and decomposition is the end. "Jesus Christ/Deny your maker/He who tries will be wasted" could be a reference to the idea that you can't fight the fact that your fate is sealed (as in the box). We're all going to die, and you can't fight that fact. Fatalism, basically. As in, either there is no maker, or, the maker set up the system that says we die. There's no changing it either way. Or, it could mean that Jesus Christ should have denied his maker, because he according to aic wasn't resurrected, and wound up just as dead as all of us will be? Who knows. Either way, basically, the uplifting message: sarcasm: is that yes, the underdog who gets beat and kicked around, will not be saved or rescued, and will still wind up six feet below (or are already boxed in, even during life). Wow. With a worldview like that, no wonder addiction was the perceived only way out for the lead singer?

Seems like they're definitely saying there was no such thing as the physical resurrection (of Jesus Christ), that people believe in it due to a sad psychological need to be rescued from the wreckage of their life. Saddest line. "I pretend you're still alive" (!) Christ is their "fair weather friend" who is now obviously dead, but whom the song's main character ironically continues to believe in out of an inner need for "protection." ("Can you protect me when I'm wrecked," he states, exposing the believer's motivation, but the person he's supposedly asking for protection is dead.) Most chilling line: "Clear all your sins, Get born again...just repeat a couple lies..." A clear reference to the evangelical movement saying that you will be saved by merely believing and repeating the words of a "Sinner's Prayer" asking Christ to forgive you for your sins, stating that you believe he is Lord and/or rose from the dead, and accepting him into your heart. The song is a very sad/cutting repudiation of the causes and consequences of wishful religious thinking. As the early christian writer Paul said, "If there is no resurrection, then of all men we are most to be pitied." This song, which holds a very different worldview from Christianity, takes that statement to be true. (As in, there is in fact no resurrection, and believers are sadly deluded and to be pitied for their psychological need for reassurance). Ultimate reading that I take from this song: I think they are implying, "Sorry that your teddy bear is dead...You're on your own, kiddo." Ouch.