Sin With a Grin

Favorite Shinedown song, and favorite song ever. It is thanking someone for putting them through so much that they have been driven crazy, as that is the only way to endure the pain (think Joker from Dark Knight). Personally, this song thanks all who caused me pain, as it is what gave me a better understanding of life, and now I feel I have it all figured out. I now enjoy the full spectrum of emotions, even if it makes no sense to enjoy pain, the very antonym of happiness. It's hard to explain the new understanding that I think this song is about.

I think he's being sarcastic when he is thanking them.

I love Shinedown, but I think that sometimes Brent is a little too lyrically poetic for his own good... The songs get kind of cryptic and confusing, but hey, the riffs and hooks are spectacular and every song is great fun to sing when you're in the car or home alone! I can't wait to hear the next album because Shinedown ages like fine wine: Only better with time!

It sounds like a screw you to something who betrayed him. While saying thanks for hurting me because it made hime the successful person he is in spite of them.

I think this song is about being ridiculed, to the point of taking it much too personally for their own good. Kind of like saying "you want me your way? here." and then this song was written.

i think this song is about realizing that someone has been putting you through crap that you dont need, and they finally took a look at the situation and everything made sense. and then they are getting revenge when the person never saw it coming.

When I look at it, I always view it as being about someone who is schizophrenic. Here is some evidence to support my cause-

"Look left, look right But I'm behind..."

This means that the voice in his head is not seen by him, it's more of an essence.

"Under my skin, where you've always been Thank you for reminding me to sin with a grin"

Under my skin, as in part of me, and the part of you that's 'under your skin' is reminding you to do wrong.

"Sin with a grin" [in general]

Grin, as in referring to insanity due to their mental state.

"I'm inside With two black eyes"

Perhaps he means by 'black eyes' obstructed vision, due to his schizophrenia causing him to have obstructed views, moral, or vision.

"Everything you did, you said You lit the fuse inside my head"

The aforementioned schizophrenia causing his insanity and violent tendencies.

"I have not one shred of sympathy I have no use for apologies"

The schizophrenia obstructs his moral.

I've always felt like this song was talking about a person who got horribly hurt by someone, either mentally or physically, and only when they stepped back and really thought about everything did they see it. This, understandably, angered them a lot, especially once they saw the scars and pain left by the one who hurt them, and they're done just standing there and taking it. They have no sympathy for the person who hurt them, and too much damage has been done for apologies to mean anything, and now they're going to go give the person what they feel is coming to them, possibly murder, and grin while doing it.

Having been force-fed religion growing up by a hostile church, I can say--read the lyrics again with that in mind.

"I never noticed, until I focused On everything you did, you said, You lit the fuse inside my head

Thank you for reminding me Of why I'm sick inside Thank you for the venom, did You think it would paralyze? These scars I scratch, I tear Are there under my skin Where you've always been Thank you for reminding me, To sin with a grin"

Eventually their psychological tricks and attempts to control no longer work on you, despite the scars they left on your mind. But there's always that lingering ghost. To transgress against their rules deliberately is both a pleasure and a form of therapy. It helps you become an adult instead of a brainwashed child. "Sin with a grin."

I'm not against faith or even religion. But I am powerfully against organized religion, and indoctrination from birth. It's not wrong to teach a child your beliefs, but it is wrong to make acceptance within the social circle conditional upon accepting those beliefs. Pressuring a child's fragile mind like that is simply wrong.

i think the concept of sin with a grin is that to feel good about getting revenge on someone