maybe just once
i can't believe
that what i feel
is finally happening to me
make it hurt
and point a finger
at my insecurites
well i guess i just don't understand
about those complexities in your mind
and i guess i just don't understand
why this world seems so unkind
maybe
maybe just one
i get just what's coming
maybe
maybe just once
i get what's coming to me
so once again
the way you feel
you'll never ever stay the same
and i'm to blame
i wonder just who made
the rules up for this game
well i guess i just don't understand
about what you want and what you need
and i guess i just don't understand
about why this is how it has to be
maybe
maybe just one
i get just what's coming
maybe
maybe just once
i get what's coming to me
so go around
you say those thousand things
you think you have to say
look at me
and tell me love's not such
a hard word word anyway
well how can you can count on me
i thought you realized for sure
and how can you just believe
i thought i deserved a little more
maybe
maybe just once
i get what's coming
maybe
maybe just once
i get what's coming to me
oh god
what's coming
oh god
what's coming to me
Like the rest of pretty hate machine, this follows the women theme. Except this time instead of accepting that he just
can't have the woman or that it's his fault (something I can never have, that's what I get, sin, ringfinger) he this time feels
that he DESERVES the woman. That something is owed to him and he is being fucked over. He feels that the woman is
pushing him away like in ringfinger except he thinks that the woman has no reason to do it and that he hasn't got what's
coming to him.
-zach
In reply to Zach's comment, I do not understand this song as dealing with a specific woman. Instead, I understood
it as perhaps challenging a preconceived notion of religion and perhaps judgment from God. The main subject of the
song is the struggle of the individual and his/her relationship with God. The individual is dealing with guilt and pain and
he/she believes that a punishment is due, and therefore is challenging God as a means for redemption and forgiveness.
Perhaps, once he/she has endured through a God given punishment, then can she/he feel some sort of peace within
his/her soul. Or, maybe on the other hand, this is could just very well be a scheme to prove the existence of a higher
power, by challenging him/her through masochistic methods.
-jenna
