My take on the song is that it's about a pair of lovers who are hellbent on destroying each other, despite their physical passion. Like the love has long since died and now they're just hatefucking each to the end of the road, out of spite or codependency or some other equally unhealthy thing.

The doomed relationship seems to be parallelled against the relationship between humanity and God, in which God is only still in this game for his ego and humanity just doesn't really have any other choice.

I haven't read the Book of Judith, but as I understand it, the story is that Holofernes was going to conquer Judith's village, so she seduced her way into his room at night and then killed him while he was drunk.

Interestingly, Judith's village was Jewish, and Holofernes and the Assyrians were going around killing anyone who didn't worship their "false" god.

Also interestingly, a lot of art depicting Judith beheading Holofernes showcases the juxtaposition of a pretty woman in pretty silks with a gross severed head (famous - and best - example (in my opinion) - much in the way TUA juxtaposes the slow, folky first verses of two people getting ready for bed with the frenetic later verses about scratching and devouring innards?

Also also interestingly, Holofernes famously appears in Dante's Divine Comedy, as the shining example of pride coming before a great fall... all the way to hell.

So! What's the point of all this? I don't know!

I don't know for sure, but my read is that "Hello, my hollow Holofernes," is a dig implying that while the female character does sleep with the male character, he should not take that to mean that she likes him. She doesn't care if their relationship ruins his life; she'd probably kill him if she had enough reason.

It's also an acknowledgement between them that they know good and well their shit is doomed; Judith and Holofernes were diametrically opposed (foes). And if this guys thinks she's going to cave first, he's going to learn a little something about where pride will take you.

If we take it a step further and layer that read over the mirrored relationship (humanity and God), it could go one of two ways.

First, the female character is God, and she's just toying with the male character because she can - she calls him "hollow Holofernes" because she wants to remind him that he might be a general, but she's a freaking God, so come at me. No, really, it'll be cute.

Second, the male character is God, and the female character is humanity; and they both know that God has no intention of showing humanity any true kindness anymore, and all she can really do about it is be spiteful. Calling God by the name of an enemy defeated by pride and sex is a pretty good middle finger flipped.

All that being said, I really hope I'm overthinking it, because I want it to be a dick joke.