DarkCore

ah! by the way, "viva la vida" means "we like the life" "hooray for life" or simply "like the life!" "love the life" i'm sure of it. you know?

There are too many references to jesus christ, he's the man of the song. But someone's right saying that this is not a song about him. It talks about having power and losing it. To be on top, and fall behind. Feel the fear of being nobody. He used to rule the world (in cristianity) before incarnating a human body. He just needed a word to have the sea rise up, like when he divided the sea to have moses pass through it escaping from egyptians. Now he's alone (in the morning) because avoided from everyone, disliked from many. He has to sweep some roads. Roads that belong to him if definitely he's God. Rolling the dice means controlling the fate. Fate is the random machine that makes things happen, it's a metaphore to say that he controlled destiny. He felt the fear in the enemy's eyes, because you know Christ and God are the same thing. And God of the Old Testament was a strong and cruel one. People feared his unlimited power. Of course the crowd would sing "Long live the king" to Pilate after crucifying Christ that would be King Of The Jews...they wanted to rather free Barabba. One minute Christ was high in the skies, he held the key of the world, but now on earth the walls are closing on him, that means that his time is running out, nobody likes him, they want him to leave or die. His castle? Won't last if its built on sand and salt as in the testament. It has no solid bases. Jerusalem, there he is. The Cavalry is singing. Then just an invocation to god and next to his disciples. To God: be my mirror, sword, and shield. To disciples and all christians: be my missionaries in a foreign field. And for some reason he cannot explain once you go there, on earth, as a human being, you won't find honesty so easily. Who could impersonate the wind if not God? That's a reference to his straordinary powers. People could not believe what he would have become, they were frightened. Kings have fear of the power Christ had as a human and not a God, to make large part of people follow him. Don't you know that was amazing? It was awesome, you know hundreds of people beleiving in you. An emperor would have never stood this. So there had to be a revolution in how things were going. They had to have his head on a silver plate. But they didn't know he was just a puppet... And after all he had just a single string......held by....God, you know he just needs one. He was moved by God's hands, but as a human being he didn't want to be king of the earth, he was already king of kings in heaven. Who would ever want to be king? Not him. You were wrong Romans! And he knows that Peter would have denied him 3 times before the sun had rosen up. That's my interpretation, it seems so easy to me. I apologize if my english's not perfect, but i'm not a mothertongue. :D Michele