God and Satan

For me this song is about balace between good and evil, just like the title suggests. I might be way off though.

I absolutely love this song. It is so beautiful, Biffy Clyro is for sure one of the best bands today!

This song is not about God and Satan as Bible figures, it talks about life in general and how we trust things before even witnessing them in person.

"I talk to God as much as I talk to Satan 'cause I want to hear both sides" says it all, people live in prejudice and stereotypes, this song is purposly using two opposite characters and one of them presents Good, while other presents Bad. But question that is being asked, right here "Well I look up to god and I see trouble" is "Why is Good always good and Bad always bad?", just because someone is Bad doesn't mean he can't be good, or vice versa - if somrone is Good he may sometimes be bad.

It also tells about how twisted this World is. Full of pain, anger, misery, prejudice and all other things casting shadows on everyone.

Just remember: Simon is using two well-known biblical protaginists and antagonist, if we can call them that way.

And it's trying to send a message that not everything is as it might seem, just because someone os presented as Bad doesn't mean he really is, just because seone does good most of the time, it doesn't mean he can't do bad.

And how twisted the World is when you no longer know what's Good and what's Bad.

I listened to this song and thought of it as someone in a relationship that isn't going very well. The person who their with isn't happy, and they know it:

"I make you miserable you stick with me although You know I'm going to ruin your life"

I look at this song as him looking at the good (God) and the bad (Satan) in the relationship and hoping for a "miracle."

"Well I look up to God and I see trouble 'cause this ain't a miracle I just want to take my chance to live through a miracle"

This line makes me think that he wants it work. He sees the good, but there's still a lot of bad, but he wants to take the chance that it's good overall.

Just my thoughts.

If god existed this world would be the perfect place. And obviously it is far from perfect. Therefore God doesn't exist.

But you are a miracle.

love this song, so meaningful :D

I love this song, because it speaks sense, and by sense I mean in a view point of someone who even if religious, refuses to be narrow minded, and bigoted, and even though I feel that this in itself is a very strong and beautiful meaning, they go that step further and include some, if not most of society's view points, in the form of rhetorical questions, which makes us question whether we have these view points too, towards those who decide to be open minded, even if that means them looking at both view points, from what we assume to be wholesomely good, and what we assume wholesomely evil and bad. Society wants to prevent that by declaring that person as cynical, just because they want to be equitable to both sides, just because they want to make their own decision and consider everything, rather than jump onto a one way road. As society we should respect that, if not admire it, but instead, we decide to shame or mock that person.