Think this is a bit more complex, but mostly the other answers have the general dea.
I think that this is about the things that mental illness does to people and makes people do.
It's clear that the "she" in this story has committed adultery from the first stanza.
Not caring about hurting a person you supposedly love but caring about yourself when you've lost that person, or a part of the relationship you lost due to your deceit of that person is a characteristic of many mental illnesses, most specifically NPD (Narcissistic personality disorder). A lack of empathy and the glorification of the self and continuous quest for gratification of the self's emotional energy requirements, fueled by the depletion of other's emotional energy. This is embodied by the 2nd stanza.
I think this song is mostly about the burden of forgiveness that adulterous behaviour of emotionally unstable people imposes on the primary victims (ie the one who has been deceived), and how the burden of forgiveness, feelings of pain and fatalistic emotional depletion, ie "the fall", which causes immense emotional damage is placed on the deceived. This is embodied by the first half of the third stanza.
The third stanza concludes in the deceived giving in to "the fall", and forgiving the deceiver, embodied by "I know the way to go, no one's guiding me. When time soaked with blood turns its back, I know it's hard to fall." This is evidence of the codependency that often exists in emotional relationships between people that have personality disorders. It ends with the observation that the deceivers behaviour hurts themselves, in terms of the cutting off of their supply of emotional energy, but progressively results in the emotional "killing" of the host, leading to depression, loss of will to live etc.
The last stanza basically points out the logical fact that the deceiver is destroying the world for both parties, and ultimately they don't need to care about it because they will be absolved in salvation (I think this is a sarcastic line).
That's my interpretation. A bit too . much analytical psychology, but I think a lot of their songs deal with these kinds of mental issues.
Think this is a bit more complex, but mostly the other answers have the general dea.
I think that this is about the things that mental illness does to people and makes people do.
It's clear that the "she" in this story has committed adultery from the first stanza.
Not caring about hurting a person you supposedly love but caring about yourself when you've lost that person, or a part of the relationship you lost due to your deceit of that person is a characteristic of many mental illnesses, most specifically NPD (Narcissistic personality disorder). A lack of empathy and the glorification of the self and continuous quest for gratification of the self's emotional energy requirements, fueled by the depletion of other's emotional energy. This is embodied by the 2nd stanza.
I think this song is mostly about the burden of forgiveness that adulterous behaviour of emotionally unstable people imposes on the primary victims (ie the one who has been deceived), and how the burden of forgiveness, feelings of pain and fatalistic emotional depletion, ie "the fall", which causes immense emotional damage is placed on the deceived. This is embodied by the first half of the third stanza.
The third stanza concludes in the deceived giving in to "the fall", and forgiving the deceiver, embodied by "I know the way to go, no one's guiding me. When time soaked with blood turns its back, I know it's hard to fall." This is evidence of the codependency that often exists in emotional relationships between people that have personality disorders. It ends with the observation that the deceivers behaviour hurts themselves, in terms of the cutting off of their supply of emotional energy, but progressively results in the emotional "killing" of the host, leading to depression, loss of will to live etc.
The last stanza basically points out the logical fact that the deceiver is destroying the world for both parties, and ultimately they don't need to care about it because they will be absolved in salvation (I think this is a sarcastic line).
That's my interpretation. A bit too . much analytical psychology, but I think a lot of their songs deal with these kinds of mental issues.