It is about a person who has been mocked and ridiculed their whole life and they are to the point of suicide. They aren't literally complaining to anyone, but the singer is speaking out to them. Telling them that he has been to the deepest parts of hell "I created the sound of madness, wrote the book on pain, but now I'm still here to explain". He is telling them that no matter what they've been through that suicide is not the answer. That they need to wake up and "fight for themselves". To put it bluntly, he's saying "toughen up, buttercup... stop being a pussy and trying to take the pussy way out... work through it like a man and be strong... If I can do it, you can do it"

The idea that this song is about a priest molesting a child is absurd. Writers want listeners to relate and feel what they feel. That would mean only. 0001% of the population could relate to this song. It's simply about a christian father that beats his son. And now his son is pissed. His dad acts like the perfect christian in public, but beats the s*t out of his son behind closed doors. Get your heads out of your asses people.

I can understand why they interpret it as suicide, because he says "don't cry one tear for me" and "listen close, it's only for today". However, I think it is not a literal suicide, but a metaphorical one. Ending his current life and starting a new one. I am pretty certain it's a feeling I had back when I lived with my parents, which wasn't suicidal. "I made it through the day" just means that he is unhappy. His parents want him meet their standards, but he feels he is not progressing in their eyes or anyone else around him (including haley's comet, which can view everything from her vantage point). Which is why she says "why are you always running in place?" and wants them to realize "this is my life". He's not mad, he just wants the expectations out the window so he can live his own life on his own terms. So he wants to disappear "like the man in the moon even does" and get a second chance to do things his way. He says "Tell my mother, tell my father" because he just wants to leave the past in the past, and even those listening to him will be forgotten which is why they need to "listen close, it's only for today.

It's not a priest. He's saying "say your prayers and comb your hair" obviously what a parent says to their child. "you need a place to hide" is saying that he "practices what he preaches" out among the world, being a good christian, but when the doors are closed he is anything but, because he is abusive (not necessarily sexually). "you confess it all away, but it's only shit to me" The father believes that by going to confession, it wipes the sins away. But not in the child's eyes. "the innocence you spoiled, found a way to live" Children are innocent, meaning they are free from worry, and sin, and morality. These are all things we are taught, or pick up on. He was forced to learn earlier than most, and though he doesn't maintain the "forced beliefs" from his father, he has still managed to grow into an adult with a concept of right and wrong. Now for the stretch. "when your worlds come crashing down" I think is referring to the apocolypse. Where he subsequently says "I want to relive" and "Let me be the one to say, I'm not Jesus and you can't run away" Going back to the "child-abusing, turned-satanic" leads me to believe that his father has broken away from his religious beliefs and the "child" here is saying that if the father was right to begin with, and there is an "end of the world" He wants to "relive" through the tribulation period and seek out his father (who would be there having abandoned Jesus) and exact his revenge, because He may be able to turn from Jesus without immediate consequence, but he can't run from me (the abused child).