Judas: ((link))

That is the question that keeps Judas alive. Not as a villain to be hated, but as a mirror to be feared—and a tragedy to be mourned.

That explains why he didn't spend the silver. He threw it back at the priests and went out to hang himself. It was the suicide of a broken idealist, not a successful con man. That is the question that keeps Judas alive

The story told in the lyrics is one of a woman who is guilt-ridden but helpless against her own desire for the very thing that hurts her. That is the question that keeps Judas alive