This is a sequel to 2001's "Reckless Abandon", and features the band looking back on their clumsy youth fondly.
I'm not quite myself these days
Guess we all come undone
Time to time, in different ways
Well, I have myself to blame
Guess I don't understand
I need help in many ways
God's got a plan for me
Well I'm gonna tell you one thing
I don't got the patience or the time
What can I say
I'm no angel, I'm not forsaken
But I can bleed
Tear me open, I believe
God will set you up to bleed
And no one can deceive
What is meant to be
And bloody murder we will scream
Well I guess it's time for me
Tell me what I'm left to believe in
'Cause I don't know the concept of the pain
don't want the faith, I'll just lose it
I can prove it
Watch me bleed
Tear me open, I believe
God will set you up to bleed
And no one can deceive
What is meant to be
And bloody murder we will scream
God will set you up to tear me open
'Cause I'm not giving up
No self-control
Suffocated to the bone
I'm my worst enemy
Who can't be saved
I'm just His disgrace
Tear me open, I believe
God will set you up to bleed
And no one can deceive
What is meant to be
And bloody murder we will scream
God will set you up to tear me open
These days are strange, it's true
There's not a thing that I would change
No mistakes that I'd undo
Guess we all come undone
Time to time, in different ways
Well, I have myself to blame
Guess I don't understand
I need help in many ways
God's got a plan for me
Well I'm gonna tell you one thing
I don't got the patience or the time
What can I say
I'm no angel, I'm not forsaken
But I can bleed
Tear me open, I believe
God will set you up to bleed
And no one can deceive
What is meant to be
And bloody murder we will scream
Well I guess it's time for me
Tell me what I'm left to believe in
'Cause I don't know the concept of the pain
don't want the faith, I'll just lose it
I can prove it
Watch me bleed
Tear me open, I believe
God will set you up to bleed
And no one can deceive
What is meant to be
And bloody murder we will scream
God will set you up to tear me open
'Cause I'm not giving up
No self-control
Suffocated to the bone
I'm my worst enemy
Who can't be saved
I'm just His disgrace
Tear me open, I believe
God will set you up to bleed
And no one can deceive
What is meant to be
And bloody murder we will scream
God will set you up to tear me open
These days are strange, it's true
There's not a thing that I would change
No mistakes that I'd undo
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I think it's about him being lost and everyone is telling him turn to god, but he won't. He may be making an allusion to Albert Camus' The Stranger when he says he doesn't have time for god; he simply doesn't want to waste his time in god. Due to his lack in belief, he feels like everyone is going to tear him up for it, thus the line: "Tear me open, I believe, God will send you all to bleed" also a reference to having his mortal son Jesus bleed and die on the cross. He may seem to sumbit to everyone telling him to turn to god by saying, "Tell me what I have left to believe in." He then says he won't give up and submit to religion and will remain athiest or agnostic. In the last chorus, he screams bloody murder, just like the Inquisition by the Catholic church. In the outro, he says he just won't ask for forgiveness or repent for his sins.
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