I took your counsel and came to ruin
Leave me to myself, leave me to myself
I took your counsel and came to ruin
Leave me to myself, leave me to myself
(He tried to accept religion and look to it for guidance, but it only made things worse)
Oh I was made to live without you
But I'm never going to understand, never understand
Oh I was born to live without you
But I'm never going to understand, never understand
(he isn't the type to be religious, he doesn't understand the complexities of the world, even as explained by religion.)
Hold me in your everlasting arms
Looked up full of fear
Trapped beneath a chandelier that's going down
(even though he doesn't believe, he shows that people sometimes just want there to be something protecting them)
I thought it over and drew the curtain
Leave me to my cell, leave me to my cell
(using logic and reason, he couldn't believe)
I hummed the Dies Irae, you played the Hallelujah
Leave me to my cell, don't leave me in my cell
(he feels that everyone else is calling god wonderful but him. He is wondering why any god would have the world so miserable, and how anyone could worship that god. (by the way, that means 'anger of the gods' in latin, for those who isn't know). but at the end, he doesn't want to be left all alone (without the community that religion provides, maybe?))
If you'd been made to serve a master,
You'd be frightened by the open hand,
Frightened by the hand
Could I've been made to serve a master?
Well I'm never going to understand, never understand
(it's what a lot of religious people say, that people are frightened by the open hand. well, he's saying that it may be true, but he just can't get behind religion, and he knows he will probably never understand life or the meaning of it, anyways, and accepts it)
Hold me in your everlasting arms
Looked up full of fears
Trapped beneath a chandelier that's going down
(he still sometimes feels a yearning for protection. Maybe life would be easier if he believed he was going to be saved someday)
I'm gonna go line by line for this one.
I took your counsel and came to ruin Leave me to myself, leave me to myself
I took your counsel and came to ruin Leave me to myself, leave me to myself
(He tried to accept religion and look to it for guidance, but it only made things worse)
Oh I was made to live without you But I'm never going to understand, never understand
Oh I was born to live without you But I'm never going to understand, never understand
(he isn't the type to be religious, he doesn't understand the complexities of the world, even as explained by religion.)
Hold me in your everlasting arms Looked up full of fear Trapped beneath a chandelier that's going down
(even though he doesn't believe, he shows that people sometimes just want there to be something protecting them)
I thought it over and drew the curtain Leave me to my cell, leave me to my cell
(using logic and reason, he couldn't believe)
I hummed the Dies Irae, you played the Hallelujah Leave me to my cell, don't leave me in my cell
(he feels that everyone else is calling god wonderful but him. He is wondering why any god would have the world so miserable, and how anyone could worship that god. (by the way, that means 'anger of the gods' in latin, for those who isn't know). but at the end, he doesn't want to be left all alone (without the community that religion provides, maybe?))
If you'd been made to serve a master, You'd be frightened by the open hand, Frightened by the hand
Could I've been made to serve a master? Well I'm never going to understand, never understand
(it's what a lot of religious people say, that people are frightened by the open hand. well, he's saying that it may be true, but he just can't get behind religion, and he knows he will probably never understand life or the meaning of it, anyways, and accepts it)
Hold me in your everlasting arms Looked up full of fears Trapped beneath a chandelier that's going down
(he still sometimes feels a yearning for protection. Maybe life would be easier if he believed he was going to be saved someday)