Viva La Vida Lyrics Meaning

Many months ago, I posted the song "Viva La Vida" with its lyrics in my blog. Now, i'm going to give you its meaning.

The first part before the chorus tell us about the feeling of joy that we lost sometime.
We all have gone through it before. We used to rule our own world. But that was when we were a child. When time changes, our environment changes too. We have more homeworks, projects, and deadlines. The phrase, "And I discovered that my castle stand, upon pillars of salt, pillars of sand,"  told us about the time we grow up and received those "grown up" stuff.

The chorus tell us about the sins we've made, even though when we were in joy. We make sins, every single day. Everyone in the world have make sins. The second chorus have a different phrase than the first one. It says, "I know Saint Peter won't call my name,". It meant that we may not realized it yet, but we have make many sins throughout our lives.

The second part after the chorus tell us about the downfall in ourselves. I think it was between year 17 of our lives. The world show us the misery and stress in our surroundings. One part says, "Revolutionaries wait, for my head in the silver plate," it simply means that after the mistakes we've make, we have to face the punishment for that mistakes.