You're ALL idiots. This song has nothing to do with a guy and a girl, good grief, how pedestrian and boring, is that all you monkeys ever think about is your tawdry little relationships? Hell no. Listen to the lyrics. The song is clearly about "breaking up" all right -- but not with some mere human. It's about breaking up with a supreme entity, a monolithic figurehead of power, a god.

This supreme entity is one prone to thinking everything is always the fault of the person it happens TO instead of the fault of the person who does it TO THEM. That's a convenient self-justifying default excuse this entity has for its capricious whims -- giving with one hand and taking away with the other; luring people with promises of love and salvation into a toxic cesspit of cyclical games of guilt and grace, a trap of self-doubt and self-loathing, a perpetual co-dependency all based on swallowing the premise that you are nothing without Him and can never be anything without Him.

This supreme entity has clearly presented its lying lures to the narrator, who fell for them and did his level best to hold up his end of the bargain in this sick, one-way, unilateralist relationship with this supreme -- yet ultimately very petty and self-absorbed -- tyrant. This tyrant stakes his whole end-game on a massive PR campaign that he is pure good, that everything he does is unquestionably right (even when it's very wrong, like slaughtering millions of innocents in a single sweep, etc.), and that his love is not just the best love but the only real love, and everyone needs him in order to live and escape a dire fate of eternal torture. His power is perceived to be so vast that the only thing that "threatens" him, so to speak, is that anyone should see through this millenia-old woven tapestry veil of lies and deceit to what is really going on. And even then it only really threatens him in the sense that it could influence other people to open their eyes and wake up to the truth about this so-called "ultimate truth", about this supreme entity, that he is not even remotely as portrayed in these massive PR campaigns, not even remotely as reported by all the masses he has hypnotized and brainwashed into feeding his ego with their "praises" and worship.

Our narrator (the voice the singer and the lyrics represent) is one such person, because he is one of the few strong enough to stand up and defy this monster and tell him NO. NO I will not accept your lie that I'm nothing without you. NO I will not accept your sick, twisted, jaded view of human nature that says we are all born polluted with evil. See, this guy has just been through an experience where he knows clearly, beyond all shadow of a doubt, it was NOT his fault what happened, but this supreme tyrant is trying to push blame on him as usual. When in fact it was this tyrant whose capricious whims caused such vast suffering in his life, for he'd given him a great gift that could never be replaced, and the recipient had hesitated out of the same self-doubt instilled by the tyrant, and then just when he had been assured and reached his hand out to accept that gift, it was snatched away from him. The better life -- the amazing transformation inside himself to make him a nobler, better person, the freedom and liberation from matters of shame and blame, all of it was exposed as a lie and a sham.

Now he faces the one who used him so cruelly, and all the earth-shattering, sky-splitting descriptions in this song are METAPHORS for how it feels to stare down something that much bigger, that much more powerful, that much so established that nobody questions it, when you know beyond a shadow of a doubt no matter if the whole world calls it good, it is really truly evil, bad, selfish and wrong -- it is really truly everything it projects onto and accuses the human race of being born as. This supreme entity is in fact the very "devil" it pretends to warn everyone about -- another lying tactic designed to hoodwink the masses about its true nature and intent. But the record of history -- all the misery and suffering -- that does not lie. Not that which humans inflict upon themselves and others, but that which is inflicted upon them.

So this is the moment when it comes down to the wire, when the bare truth uncovered becomes the ground upon which the righteous defiance thereof makes its stand. The severing of all those hopes and dreams for the supremacy of the universe to be trustworthy and caring is so profound it is like the sky opening up and spilling lightning on the ground, like a chasm opening up between oneself and the world one once knew. And all the while the challenge rings out -- GIVE ME **REASON** TO PROVE ME WRONG AND WASH THIS MEMORY CLEAN -- in other words don't just accuse and condemn -- PROVE IT. PROVE I'm wrong when it's YOU that did ME wrong ... PROVE IT, I DARE YOU -- in fact I NEED you to prove it to get the agony of knowing all of this out of my mind, to wash my awareness clean of a terrible knowledge that only isolates and dooms.

But the supreme entity is so locked into its ways, so locked into believing its own campaigns, believing its own bullshit, that all it can do is regard everything it inflicts, every misery it visits upon its victims, as being THEIR FAULT somehow. So every loss, every lie, every truth about itself that it denies, every regret a person has, every goodbye or parting of ways, becomes a mistake in its eyes, a "mistake too great to hide" on the part of the one who suffers from those things, when in reality it is inflicted upon them by this supreme entity. This entity is coldhearted toward anyone who sees through his crap and knows what he really is, hence the challenge to "let the floods cross the distance in your eyes" -- in other words, instead of a deluge of wrath let's see some real feeling here, let's see some tears, give me any reason to think there's hope, any reason to make an effort to fill in this huge chasm between us and reconnect.

Of course all the while the entity is saying "you get what you deserve" in the face of someone else's misery -- that's his whole bullying/abusive justification for every cruel whim he indulges at our (human beings') expense. His answer to everything is "it's your fault" and most of humanity falls for that garbage and that's why our world is so screwed up all the time. People fall for it and then push that same filth onto others until the whole of humanity is poisoned by it. The people who stand up to challenge this despicable supreme tyrannical self-centered hypocrite are the only true heroes in the universe -- that's why simply settling on "there's no such thing" isn't enough. The construct is as firmly embedded in the minds of many human beings as if there were such a thing, so it cannot merely be denounced as silly superstition and non-existent; it must be exposed and adamantly opposed.

But that can be a lonely and scary path for those brave enough to embark -- where the skies are black and full of lightning, where the earth opens up into a yawning chasm between themselves and this entity, between themselves and all the perpetually infantilizing "comforts" it supposedly can offer. It's like the guy is just staring into this huge smoking crater where his entire LIFE had once been, being told it's all HIS fault and he DESERVES this, and shaking his fist at this despicable unilateralist tyrant and demanding just one good reason why he should trade his eyes and their seeing of the real truth for this toxic shaming, blaming bullshit that isn't even the fact of the matter and/or come crawling back.