Wednesday, July 3, 2013

Skillet's "Sometimes"

One of the bands that I am hoping to see on Sunday, August 25, 2013, at the US Cellular Center in Cedar Rapids, IA is Skillet. The following are lyrics to a song I listened to yesterday. On the surface, it seems like they are directed at someone the speaker is in a relationship with, but the more I read them, I think the speaker is talking about a relationship with God. The interesting part of that theory is that the speaker is calling God "messed up" and that's a different idea about God that I've never considered. If you believe is God is perfect, then it doesn't really fit, but what if you think all the evil in the world comes to humankind because God is not perfect. Maybe the speaker thinks God can't be every thing to everyone because of the innate conflicts of interest. Is there anything that happens in the world that is "bad" that someone sees as good?

Now, there is a separation between the beliefs of the speaker and the beliefs of me.

Do I believe that God is imperfect? No, I believe He is perfect.

Anyways, just read these lyrics and think of it as the speaker is talking to God. 

Sometimes when I lie
I know you're on to me
Sometimes I don't mind
How hateful that I can be
Sometimes I don't try
To make you happy
I don't know why I do the things I do to you but...

[Chorus:]
Sometimes I don't wanna be better
Sometimes I can't be put back together
Sometimes I find it hard to believe
There's someone else who could be
Just as messed up as me

Sometimes don't deny
That everything is wrong
Sometimes rather die
Than to admit it's my fault
Sometimes when you cry
I just don't care at all
I don't know why I do the things I do to you but...

[Chorus]

[Bridge:]
I want someone to hurt
Like the way I hurt
It's sick but it makes me feel better

Sometimes I can't hide
The demons that I face
Sometimes don't deny
I'm sometimes sinner sometimes saint

Sometimes I don't wanna be better
(Everything is wrong forever)
Sometimes I can't be put back together
(Sometimes it's gone forever)
Sometimes I find it hard to believe
There's someone else who could be
Just as messed up as me [x2]

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