In this music video, a hot sexy minotaur makes life very complicated for a heartbroken young man. The song itself deals with loss, grief and learning to love what you hate.
Like Carolyn Elliot writes in her book EXISTENTIAL KINK, there is a part of us that desires the dark and disturbing stuff that goes on in our lives. Our conscious mind rejects it, but having is evidence of wanting. And we can understand that everything going on in our lives is there because our unconscious wants it. And the unconscious always gets what it wants. Always.
If you can bring yourself to admit that some small part of you wants the horrible and uncomfortable situations in your life, then you make them conscious. And whatever remains unconscious will direct your life and you will call it fate…as Carl Jung so eloquently put it. Rather, he said “Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”
FATE LYRICS
I used to spit you out like fire,
Bitter taste I could not hide.
Every time you showed your face,
I only felt the burn inside.
But shadows change when light gets closer,
What I cursed, I now hold tight.
The thorn I hated in my garden
Became the rose that saved my life.
I learned to love the thing I feared,
Turned the ache into a song I hear.
The stone that cut me, I made it shine,
What once was poison now tastes like wine.
Love grew in the place of rage,
I’m dancing inside the cage.
I learned to love the thing I hate,
And now it feels like fate.
Every wound is just a teacher,
Every scar a secret key.
You were the mirror I avoided,
But you still reflected me.
I swallowed storms until they softened,
I kissed the teeth that used to bite.
You were my enemy in daylight,
But my salvation in the night.
I learned to love the thing I feared,
Turned the ache into a song I hear.
The stone that cut me, I made it shine,
What once was poison now tastes like wine.
Love grew in the place of rage,
I’m dancing inside the cage.
I learned to love the thing I hate,
And now it feels like fate.
You were the shadow under my skin,
I let you in, I let you win.
And in that losing, I found my breath,
I found my life inside your death.
I learned to love the thing I feared,
Turned the ache into a song I hear.
The stone that cut me, I made it shine,
What once was poison now tastes like wine.
Hate became a holy gate,
Opened wide, I walked through late.
Now the thorn I used to break—
Is the flower I embrace.
