I believe this song is about the futility of believing in a creator or an all-powerful God. Here, Hall takes the position of a captive, wishing to be freed from his prison and questioning why he is trapped. He pleads with his captor, saying he has do e everything he had been told, and how he wants to be left out, but his cries fall on deaf ears. On the religious perspective, the captor is the religious as a whole. They pray and cry out asking for the answers in life and follow their holy writings to the letter, but their God does nothing, so to beg and try to reason is futile. We are trapped in the Neverending cycle of life without a creator, or at least without a caring creator, to turn things around at the darkest and most uncertain times.
I believe this song is about the futility of believing in a creator or an all-powerful God. Here, Hall takes the position of a captive, wishing to be freed from his prison and questioning why he is trapped. He pleads with his captor, saying he has do e everything he had been told, and how he wants to be left out, but his cries fall on deaf ears. On the religious perspective, the captor is the religious as a whole. They pray and cry out asking for the answers in life and follow their holy writings to the letter, but their God does nothing, so to beg and try to reason is futile. We are trapped in the Neverending cycle of life without a creator, or at least without a caring creator, to turn things around at the darkest and most uncertain times.