Vanishing Point Lyrics
This is a wonderful song and its lyrics were partially inspired by 'Whistle Down The Wind' movie, where a group of children help a thief man to escape from the police on confusing him with Jesus and he, of course, uses their innocence for getting to be free from the prison. Therefore who talks at 1st person in this lyrics is a person that is warning kids about a 'sleeping demon' (in that movie the kids saw the thief at the 1st time when he was asleep) or a man who doesn't deserve the compassion that they are used to give it to him, since he just manipulates them for getting what he needs or wants.
This one who talks at 1st person seems to have suffered a similar experience when he was a kid too, probably in the hands of his father, who treated badly his mother too. And this terrible situation just came to an end whe he grew up and found real love to his life. Then, in the second part of the lyrics, he presents love as the solution to heal the emotional hurts caused by any bad man when you were a kid.
In the last lines, the kids accidentaly release themselves from the cruel man just like in the mentioned movie, despite he has never got tired of being cruel.
I have a problem with this song.... my problem is that every time I listen to it, I cry! Beautiful song!
Despite the reference, this song is plain and simply a reference to child abuse. Sumner has a thing for that subject (I don't know if there is a particular reason).