I think it's leaning more towards making mistakes, like I So Hate Consequences.
In the first verse, the imagery is that there's something in the blood that needs to be let out, like venom from a snakebite. I'm kinda foggy on the second half, but it strikes me an awful lot like: "For whoever would save his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it." - Matthew 16:25
"And today I will trust you with the confidence
Of a man who's never known defeat
But tomorrow, upon hearing what I did
I will stare at you in disbelief
Oh, inconsistent me
Crying out for consistency "
he promises that he won't do something, and then he can't help himself when he's tempted to do it and gives in. Later the person he made the promise to finds out and confronts him about it, and he can't believe that he lost control again. That's something I've gone through so many times I've lost count.
In the second verse, he describes the human condition of being weak; we're fallen creatures, and we should realize that we are. As they say, knowing's half the battle. But we're not perfectly imperfect,(how's that for a contradiction? It's like in the movie the Incredibles, how they say that if everybody's special, then nobody's special. Anyways...) and somewhere inside of us is the strength to defeat our problems (that grow on us, like gravity); hmm... then there's that image in Christianity of Jesus coming to live inside us... hmm...
"If the burden seems too much to bear
Remember
The end will justify the pain it took to get us there"
This is easily the best part of the song, IMHO. It's just... I don't know... moving, to think of how although we're going to have to go through all kinds of hardships in this life, the end goal of the joys of heaven will be more than worth it.
That principle, of course, applies to almost everything in life; like in school, if you don't work and push yourself and suck up the discomfort, you won't learn. If you want to play sports, you've got to work. No pain, no gain.
This, for me, is one of the best songs on this CD. And that's saying something, because it's an amazingly good CD.
I think it's leaning more towards making mistakes, like I So Hate Consequences.
In the first verse, the imagery is that there's something in the blood that needs to be let out, like venom from a snakebite. I'm kinda foggy on the second half, but it strikes me an awful lot like: "For whoever would save his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it." - Matthew 16:25
"And today I will trust you with the confidence Of a man who's never known defeat But tomorrow, upon hearing what I did I will stare at you in disbelief Oh, inconsistent me Crying out for consistency "
he promises that he won't do something, and then he can't help himself when he's tempted to do it and gives in. Later the person he made the promise to finds out and confronts him about it, and he can't believe that he lost control again. That's something I've gone through so many times I've lost count.
In the second verse, he describes the human condition of being weak; we're fallen creatures, and we should realize that we are. As they say, knowing's half the battle. But we're not perfectly imperfect,(how's that for a contradiction? It's like in the movie the Incredibles, how they say that if everybody's special, then nobody's special. Anyways...) and somewhere inside of us is the strength to defeat our problems (that grow on us, like gravity); hmm... then there's that image in Christianity of Jesus coming to live inside us... hmm...
"If the burden seems too much to bear Remember The end will justify the pain it took to get us there"
This is easily the best part of the song, IMHO. It's just... I don't know... moving, to think of how although we're going to have to go through all kinds of hardships in this life, the end goal of the joys of heaven will be more than worth it.
That principle, of course, applies to almost everything in life; like in school, if you don't work and push yourself and suck up the discomfort, you won't learn. If you want to play sports, you've got to work. No pain, no gain.
This, for me, is one of the best songs on this CD. And that's saying something, because it's an amazingly good CD.