Take a look at the video for this song. It has striking similarities to the film "Cool Hand Luke," which starred Paul Newman. In both the music video and the film, we see men working on a chain gang, a prison guard with bright sunglasses, a poker game, and an egg-eating contest. I think the connection to the film means that the song is about good and evil.
Something else I noticed is these lines:
"So I took what I wanted and put it out of my reach
I wanted to pay for my successes with all my defeats,"
They seem to correlate with notions of Buddhism - that we need to kill desire through self-denial and that we have karmic debt that we pay for with good deeds.
Take a look at the video for this song. It has striking similarities to the film "Cool Hand Luke," which starred Paul Newman. In both the music video and the film, we see men working on a chain gang, a prison guard with bright sunglasses, a poker game, and an egg-eating contest. I think the connection to the film means that the song is about good and evil.
Something else I noticed is these lines:
"So I took what I wanted and put it out of my reach I wanted to pay for my successes with all my defeats,"
They seem to correlate with notions of Buddhism - that we need to kill desire through self-denial and that we have karmic debt that we pay for with good deeds.