It's obviously about someone questioning their faith, but I don't see it as a conversation as some people have said; it does seem internal. He seems to be beginning to reason with his beliefs.
"How could you question God's existence
when you question God himself?
Why would you ask for God's assistance
if you wouldn't take the help?
"
He's conflicted because he's realizing that he's asking something of something that he isn't even sure exists
"If you're gone, then I need you
If you're gone, then how is any of this real?
When I'm on, I believe you
When I'm not, my knees don't even seem to feel
"
He realizes that he only truly believes when he's doing well.
"How could you tell me that I'm great
When they chew me up, spit me out, pissed on me?
Why would you tell me that it's fate
When they laughed at me, every day, in my face?"
He starts questioning what he's heard about his God. He's been told that he's great, and that "everything happens for a reason" (fate), but then he's put through hell and realizes that this is all being done to him on purpose, or there is actually no God.
"They say the end is coming sooner
But the end's already here
I said today is but a rumor
That we'll laugh at in a year
Or two, or three, or four, or five, whatever"
I don't know exactly how this fits in to the rest of the song. He seems to kind of laugh off the concept of Armageddon near the end, which would show him losing faith.
It's obviously about someone questioning their faith, but I don't see it as a conversation as some people have said; it does seem internal. He seems to be beginning to reason with his beliefs.
"How could you question God's existence when you question God himself? Why would you ask for God's assistance if you wouldn't take the help? " He's conflicted because he's realizing that he's asking something of something that he isn't even sure exists
"If you're gone, then I need you If you're gone, then how is any of this real? When I'm on, I believe you When I'm not, my knees don't even seem to feel " He realizes that he only truly believes when he's doing well.
"How could you tell me that I'm great When they chew me up, spit me out, pissed on me? Why would you tell me that it's fate When they laughed at me, every day, in my face?" He starts questioning what he's heard about his God. He's been told that he's great, and that "everything happens for a reason" (fate), but then he's put through hell and realizes that this is all being done to him on purpose, or there is actually no God.
"They say the end is coming sooner But the end's already here I said today is but a rumor That we'll laugh at in a year Or two, or three, or four, or five, whatever" I don't know exactly how this fits in to the rest of the song. He seems to kind of laugh off the concept of Armageddon near the end, which would show him losing faith.