"It's a long long way from paradise to where I am today " and then "Someday I’ll see home "
This part's kinda cool, I think:
"I've seen ashes shine like chrome
Someday I’ll see home"
"see[ing] ashes shine like chrome" is a picture of how it's going to be in heaven. The ashes are us humans. (From ashes to ashes and dust to dust) We're worthless next to God. When a Christian goes to heaven, he will shine like chrome, metaphorically speaking, because he's with God in a perfect place, no longer a heap of dirt/ashes.
And then there's this:
"It's a long way from the shadows in my cave
Up to Your reality
To watch the sunlight taking over, over "
The philosopher Plato came up with the idea of a cave, where several people were chained to a wall and all they could see were shadows cast on the wall in front of them by a fire behind them. Since that's all they know, they grow to believe that those shadows are all that's real. But if one of them was set free and went up into the sunlight, at first it would hurt (his eyes) but then he would finally see what's really real. Here's a fuller explanation:
I'm pretty sure "home" is heaven.
"It's a long long way from paradise to where I am today " and then "Someday I’ll see home "
This part's kinda cool, I think:
"I've seen ashes shine like chrome Someday I’ll see home"
"see[ing] ashes shine like chrome" is a picture of how it's going to be in heaven. The ashes are us humans. (From ashes to ashes and dust to dust) We're worthless next to God. When a Christian goes to heaven, he will shine like chrome, metaphorically speaking, because he's with God in a perfect place, no longer a heap of dirt/ashes.
And then there's this:
"It's a long way from the shadows in my cave Up to Your reality To watch the sunlight taking over, over "
The philosopher Plato came up with the idea of a cave, where several people were chained to a wall and all they could see were shadows cast on the wall in front of them by a fire behind them. Since that's all they know, they grow to believe that those shadows are all that's real. But if one of them was set free and went up into the sunlight, at first it would hurt (his eyes) but then he would finally see what's really real. Here's a fuller explanation:
http://faculty.washington.edu/smcohen/320/cave.htm