I agree with Zemi on multiple points. That the narrator has lost something unable to be recovered, definitely. It's a very deep, dark, pessimistic perspective. But I don't think they're trying to look on the 'good' of what it was as much as they're trying to figure out why it is that they lost what they did.
The four things mentioned: God, Death, Time, Love are all supernatural, intangible things that we have no control over. You can't be sure God exists, you can't stop Death, you can't turn back Time, and you can't make someone Love you.
It could be because I was going through a very bad time when I first heard and got attached to this song, but it seems like it could be about someone who was religious at some point, who loved someone, and lost them (possibly through their death as a literal taking of its inclusion, or possibly through a break-up as more of the 'death' of their relationship).
The narrator goes through the process of questioning all four primal things, asking why God didn't help, why Time hasn't help heal their loss, why they don't love him back, why they (or it) was killed.
It seems like the emotional, or just one part of the person is asking all these questions about the different aspects of what happened (or life in general), and every time they get no answer to their questions and their logical/reasonal side tell themself 'I told you so', in that they might know they'll get no answer, but they seek one even with that in mind.
Just my two cents. It's a very powerful song and like a poster above, it's hard to understand all the metaphors.
I agree with Zemi on multiple points. That the narrator has lost something unable to be recovered, definitely. It's a very deep, dark, pessimistic perspective. But I don't think they're trying to look on the 'good' of what it was as much as they're trying to figure out why it is that they lost what they did.
The four things mentioned: God, Death, Time, Love are all supernatural, intangible things that we have no control over. You can't be sure God exists, you can't stop Death, you can't turn back Time, and you can't make someone Love you.
It could be because I was going through a very bad time when I first heard and got attached to this song, but it seems like it could be about someone who was religious at some point, who loved someone, and lost them (possibly through their death as a literal taking of its inclusion, or possibly through a break-up as more of the 'death' of their relationship).
The narrator goes through the process of questioning all four primal things, asking why God didn't help, why Time hasn't help heal their loss, why they don't love him back, why they (or it) was killed.
It seems like the emotional, or just one part of the person is asking all these questions about the different aspects of what happened (or life in general), and every time they get no answer to their questions and their logical/reasonal side tell themself 'I told you so', in that they might know they'll get no answer, but they seek one even with that in mind.
Just my two cents. It's a very powerful song and like a poster above, it's hard to understand all the metaphors.