This song is about ACTION vs WANTING (prayer). When backed into a corner and it comes down to do or die, what REALLY is going to save you? Jesus or a gun?
"It's safe to say I don't desire/ Everything you push inside my head/ And I'll reject it until I'm dead"
^ Could be interpreted into different contexts, but given the title and chorus of the song, he's talking about religion and the way people are hearded into organized religion when they're children without a choice.
To shogunbown, I don't think he is depressed at all. It's not a song about suicide.
It's a song about beating the odds and believing in YOURSELF, and trusting in yourself above all else (supernatural beings included).
"All that's safer falls from my favor/ When it's over who will cry for me?"
By choosing to reject Christianity, he's choosing an unsafe path. He is choosing to live life the way HE wants to.
"When it's over, who will cry for me?"
When he dies, who will cry for him since he is presumably an atheist or agnostic? Will people refuse to mourn for him because religion blinds them to humanity?
This song is about ACTION vs WANTING (prayer). When backed into a corner and it comes down to do or die, what REALLY is going to save you? Jesus or a gun?
"It's safe to say I don't desire/ Everything you push inside my head/ And I'll reject it until I'm dead"
^ Could be interpreted into different contexts, but given the title and chorus of the song, he's talking about religion and the way people are hearded into organized religion when they're children without a choice.
To shogunbown, I don't think he is depressed at all. It's not a song about suicide.
It's a song about beating the odds and believing in YOURSELF, and trusting in yourself above all else (supernatural beings included).
"All that's safer falls from my favor/ When it's over who will cry for me?"
By choosing to reject Christianity, he's choosing an unsafe path. He is choosing to live life the way HE wants to.
"When it's over, who will cry for me?"
When he dies, who will cry for him since he is presumably an atheist or agnostic? Will people refuse to mourn for him because religion blinds them to humanity?
And I agree with divican, that verse is killer.