The struggle is dealing with the guilt of the bad things he's done, further complicated by the difficulty of discerning right from wrong. The main question I see is "Who's responsible for the bad things I do?" Is it really me or one of the higher powers? (The implication of higher powers being God for creating him or Satan for influencing him). My InterpretationThis song seems to be about the dynamics of personal guilt, relative to the existence of higher beings, which represent good and evil of course.
Even people who don't think they ever done anything wrong to someone else. But I hope I've shown that this is by no means a shallow song, that Satan and God aren't man and woman for contrast between them and likely not overly religious. While that last thing i wrote may make it seem like he's asking for a chance to make it up to one person, I still believe this is a song about a soldier. The way the song vocalizes it makes it sound like a plea. It's the true point he can never make up for whatever happened. It's a 'I can never fix this or make it up to you.' "Falling further and further away" The chance he makes up for whatever it is. That's he's someone who can't be "saved" for lack of better terms. He could also be saying he really doesn't know what drove him to do it in the first place. "I'm not defending" is he can't and isn't going to say what he did is right. The line "I looked away, I turned away" is that he can't truly forgive himself for what he's done or what he's doing.
The devil looking like him is he know that he's doing a bad thing or that other people see him as a horrible person. He sounding like god is him telling himself what he's doing is okay because it's for the right reason. The true fact and problem here is there's no true thing as right and wrong, just many different Points of View.īut it's also an an individual level. They both think they're doing the right thing. The US government sends troops saying it's OK to kill Terrorists. Al Qaeda says it's OK to kill non-Muslims. He's a human, he's saying humans say "God's Will" is this and that, and humans decide what they think is OK against what's bad. God sounding like him and the devil looking like him is double symbolic. If we didn't care about that we'd never fight, but since we do people are fighting, and I like to think that some do it so their children don't have to. The sad thing people start these wars for the wrong reasons, religion, oil, territory. That's a terrible thing to do under any circumstance, but they do it for the right reasons. Maybe not the main point of it, but think about this. The quick example is a soldier, Which is also the theme of the Official Video. (Not stone) He can't tell if what he's doing is right or wrong, and claims "I'm on the wrong side of Heaven, and the righteous side of Hell" Meaning 'I'm not doing the right thing or a good thing, But I'm doing it for the right reasons.
He claims to not be a hero and not invincible or unbreakable. The meaning of the chorus is more straightforward. This is slightly backed up by "She said She's ashamed" and "He swears He's not to blame" both things that might be said to a child they consider a troublemaker or failure. I think is Symbolizing the 2 as a mother and father, and implying human race as a child. My first and foremost thing her the the god referenced as a woman. My InterpretationI'm surprised how few comments are on this song. I saw the devil today and he looked a lot like me I heard from God today and She sounded just like me The wrong side of Heaven and the righteous side I'm on the wrong side of Heaven and the righteous side of hell I spoke to the devil today and he swears he's not to blame I spoke to God today and She said that She's ashamed