I think this song is talking about a struggle with a burdening and recurring sin.
The helicopter is symbolic for the character's one chance at life, or perhaps a specific opportunity in his life. Unfortunately, he fears that he will undermine himself in his own personal weakness and fear.
"I do the thing that I don't want"
Is a paraphrase of Paul's own exasperated comment in Rom. 7:15 "For I dont know what I am doing. For I dont practice what I desire to do; but what I hate, that I do."
"My thoughts have wings and they don't obey me."
He has struggled to control his thoughts but the harder he tries the less success he realizes.
"What's a boy to do?"
The struggle could be either with pornography, or perhaps Bazan is trying to convey a sense of the character's guilty sense of inadequacy and immaturity.
In exhaustion he turns to God for deliverance saying: Forgive me, God...please take this burden from me.
The encapsulating idea of the song is that our own efforts won't make us soar in life any more than flapping our arms up and down. In our broken acceptance of God's mercy we are delivered.
But hey...that's just my narrow-minded, Bible-beating, feel good fairytale paradigm.
I think this song is talking about a struggle with a burdening and recurring sin.
The helicopter is symbolic for the character's one chance at life, or perhaps a specific opportunity in his life. Unfortunately, he fears that he will undermine himself in his own personal weakness and fear.
"I do the thing that I don't want"
Is a paraphrase of Paul's own exasperated comment in Rom. 7:15 "For I don
t know what I am doing. For I dont practice what I desire to do; but what I hate, that I do.""My thoughts have wings and they don't obey me."
He has struggled to control his thoughts but the harder he tries the less success he realizes.
"What's a boy to do?"
The struggle could be either with pornography, or perhaps Bazan is trying to convey a sense of the character's guilty sense of inadequacy and immaturity.
In exhaustion he turns to God for deliverance saying: Forgive me, God...please take this burden from me.
The encapsulating idea of the song is that our own efforts won't make us soar in life any more than flapping our arms up and down. In our broken acceptance of God's mercy we are delivered.
But hey...that's just my narrow-minded, Bible-beating, feel good fairytale paradigm.