I always figured it was about going sober. I figure that it's a guy who is repeatedly trying and failing on the 12 steps programme (I come back again and aa=gain) who can't ever commit to it or complete it because he fails to recognise or respect a higherpower ("One more step and I'll start to bend"). The rest of the song is him struggling with the conflicting voices (one urging him to seek a new, clean lifestyle - "a new frontier" and the other telling him that "it's fun to be bad")
The irony is the different meanings of the line "you try to live and God says no". One meaning refers to his reason for resenting and not respecting God - the self righteous rules and regulations that stop him 'sliving'. The other meaning is the ironic fact that it is his dislike of the higher-power that is preventing him from healing and achieving a better life.
The irony is the different meanings of the line "you try to live and God says no". One meaning refers to his reason for resenting and not respecting God - the self righteous rules and regulations that stop him 'sliving'. The other meaning is the ironic fact that it is his dislike of the higher-power that is preventing him from healing and achieving a better life.
I always figured it was about going sober. I figure that it's a guy who is repeatedly trying and failing on the 12 steps programme (I come back again and aa=gain) who can't ever commit to it or complete it because he fails to recognise or respect a higherpower ("One more step and I'll start to bend"). The rest of the song is him struggling with the conflicting voices (one urging him to seek a new, clean lifestyle - "a new frontier" and the other telling him that "it's fun to be bad")
The irony is the different meanings of the line "you try to live and God says no". One meaning refers to his reason for resenting and not respecting God - the self righteous rules and regulations that stop him 'sliving'. The other meaning is the ironic fact that it is his dislike of the higher-power that is preventing him from healing and achieving a better life.
The irony is the different meanings of the line "you try to live and God says no". One meaning refers to his reason for resenting and not respecting God - the self righteous rules and regulations that stop him 'sliving'. The other meaning is the ironic fact that it is his dislike of the higher-power that is preventing him from healing and achieving a better life.
In other words; he can't live with him, can't live without him.
In other words; he can't live with him, can't live without him.