Wrecking Ball was such a great album, I listened to it on repeat back around when it came out. Was revisiting this song recently - surprised there aren\'t more comments here! How it\'s struck me is about someone who is bored with their life, even though by all accounts they have a good life. So they go looking for excitement, and in doing so - get entangled with their "demons". The song says devil - and I love that line - it seems to speak to the idea that humans need something to rail against. Like we seek out suffering. If nothing is going wrong, we\'ll make a problem, because we get bored easily. Temptation into "sin" does not require meddling on the "Devil\'s" part - because we come to him, knowingly or not. And it\'s at the bottom of this hole that the singer has dug for himself that he realizes this. That he in fact had it good (a flower, a rose). But we often don\'t know what we have until it\'s gone.
Wrecking Ball was such a great album, I listened to it on repeat back around when it came out. Was revisiting this song recently - surprised there aren\'t more comments here! How it\'s struck me is about someone who is bored with their life, even though by all accounts they have a good life. So they go looking for excitement, and in doing so - get entangled with their "demons". The song says devil - and I love that line - it seems to speak to the idea that humans need something to rail against. Like we seek out suffering. If nothing is going wrong, we\'ll make a problem, because we get bored easily. Temptation into "sin" does not require meddling on the "Devil\'s" part - because we come to him, knowingly or not. And it\'s at the bottom of this hole that the singer has dug for himself that he realizes this. That he in fact had it good (a flower, a rose). But we often don\'t know what we have until it\'s gone.