Batter My Heart
Batter my heart, three personed God; (This refers to the Father, Son, And Holy Spirit) for you as yet but (you havent yet) knock, breathe, shine, and seek to mend; (the speaker ) that I may rise and stand (in other words:if I get too bold) oerthrow me (overthrow), and bend your force to break, blow burn, and make me new (notice that these words can be a metaphor for the making of pottery) I, like a usurped town (an violent rebellion), to another due (personally I think that these three words were put there to keep the rhyme scheme) Labor to admit You (try hard to believe in You) but oh, to no end; (self-explanitory) Reason, your viceroy in me, me should defend, (speaker should defend reason) But is captive, and proves weak or untrue (hes talking about reason here) Yet dearly I love you, and would be loved fain (prefferably), But am betrothed (promised) unto your enemy (the devil), Divorce me, untie, or break that knot again; Take me to you, imprison me, for I except you enthrall me (to hold spellbound), never shall be free, nor ever chaste, except you ravish me. Batter my heart, three personed God; (This refers to the Father, Son, And Holy Spirit) for you as yet but (you havent yet) knock, breathe, shine, and seek to mend; (the speaker ) that I may rise and stand (in other words:if I get too bold) oerthrow me (overthrow), and bend your force to break, blow burn, and make me new (notice that these words can be a metaphor for the making of pottery) I, like a usurped town (an violent rebellion), to another due (personally I think that these three words were put there to keep the rhyme scheme) Labor to admit You (try hard to believe in You) but oh, to no end; (self-explanitory) Reason, your viceroy in me, me should defend, (speaker should defend reason) But is captive, and proves weak or untrue (hes talking about reason here) Yet dearly I love you, and would be loved fain (prefferably), But am betrothed (promised) unto your enemy (the devil), Divorce me, untie, or break that knot again; Take me to you, imprison me, for I except you enthrall me (to hold spellbound), never shall be free, nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.