Criminals

I think the song is about a persons sub conscious/inner monologue. Its about an artist or anybody that has potential to make something of their lives with the talents they are born with. But in actuality the person is lazy, apathetic or maybe they just don't want the talets they are born with. They walk in on themselves and tell themselves "Think of all you could have." "Why do you live this way?" The subconscious self would take advantage of all of their abilities. Just imagine "what they would take." The criminal in the end is the speaker who robes himself of the life he could have had if he would have hardest all of his/her abilities.

well halfway through writing this thing i changed my opinion but i think ill just leave the first part anyway. Because the criminal can still be either or.

The song is really about the pressure that people that are talented may face in the world. When someone is born with a talent, their parents/society may push them to a life that harness their talents and abilities. The person may not care for or want to pursue that path. (think of of good will hunting). People keep telling him why doesn't he use his talents why does he live the way he lives. He responds with "you think that I don't know, You're wrong" He knows the things that he is capable of. He knows the life he could have but he does not want it. He begins to question his purpose in life. Why must he walk the route the society thinks he must follow. "whats in it for me?" he asks. If he follows that route, society will steal his very own purpose of existing. Society becomes the the criminal that robbed his/her life's purpose. At the end the speaker finally says to tell god he called out on the plan God set out for him. And if he couldnt control the life he was born into he could control the way he gets out. He kills himself. "And it was MY end"

I personally would prefer if he didnt kill himself.