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Nov 18, 2014
To me he seems to be saying that whatever happens to you, you can't blame "god" you've got to take responsibility for your own actions. This is particularly apparent when he says "the veil's overused" in other words, when you're "hiding behind" things such as god instead of owning up to the fact that it was YOU all along (war, death, illnesses, bad things that happen to you in general). Compare with David Bowie's "God Knows I'm Good" (off Space Oddity album) where a woman shoplifting asks "god" to look the other way - but when she's caught shoplifting she asks him NOT to look the other way. Hypocritical.