Okay, in response to jessinaro, I don't think it is talking about God's people enduring hardships and giving up. It is indeed about the temptation of giving up the struggle, the fight. It talks about the siren (absolute temptation) calling to you, haunting you, being exactly what you want, forgetting the battle you live in. I think that in discussing keeping the lines, using battle lines to symbolize the lines we draw in our lives to fight against temptation, against sin, we are being told to not compromise, to call for the Lord's help. We cannot turn back, we cannot give into the temptation of turning back because we are needed. By God, by fellow christians and by everyone who is lost, who needs our help to find direction and guidance. Yes, I do believe it is a warning against that, but it is more uplifting than simply telling a story about someone who gave up, who became complacent and stopped fighting. It is about someone real, someone who faces the temptation we all do everyday, to give up, stop fighting and to have the satisfaction of giving in to the calls of the siren. The call at the end goes back to the beginning.
What booming hate moves close,
So vast that the clouds would follow?
What looms, with thunder?
And the water did fall.
The booming hate is Satan, moving closer as we are more and more tempted by sin, by the sirens call. It's so big that the clouds follow. Later, begging the father to send his rain, makes me believe that the clouds following that hate, satan, are sent by the father, waiting and ready for us to send our call for help. The hate is looming, but with that thunder in the background, and then the rain falls. Turns the earth to mud, fills once dry veins with life. At the end, after calling the father to send his rain, it says we lay waste to their grip. The rain he has sent has disabled the enemy, allowing us to rise.
The general flow of the song involves the beginning, where we (the christians) were brought back from death, our certain damnation. We were brought to face a world at war, fighting and being ruled by evil, by hate, by Satan. Then it gets into showing us that God has truly called us forth, by equipping us with the ability to call on his rain, to face off the enemy with him providing for our struggle. He grants us with the eyes to see the bane, our wisdom to see the true cause of the death and hate all around, the truth of the world. Although the song so sweet is calling to use, we cannot turn, we cannot compromise our lines and allow the enemy to cross at all. Also meaning that if we allow satan any hold on our life, it will only get stronger and stronger. It's not real, you'll see. The image Satan puts forth, the temptation, isn't real, and we cannot turn our eyes from what is. Then finally, at the end, singing in a beautiful manner, imitating that of a siren calling to us, is actually showing us the truth of what seems so true, so wonderful. It is granting us the wisdom to know that the call of satan, of his siren, is false, and can only lead to death.
As we make the call, calling out to God for help, to our fellow Christians, we see the rain sent, we see the earth turn to mud, once dry veins filled with life God sends, and we see the Kings of the world lain to waste, we see their grip wasted, and then we rise.
Okay, in response to jessinaro, I don't think it is talking about God's people enduring hardships and giving up. It is indeed about the temptation of giving up the struggle, the fight. It talks about the siren (absolute temptation) calling to you, haunting you, being exactly what you want, forgetting the battle you live in. I think that in discussing keeping the lines, using battle lines to symbolize the lines we draw in our lives to fight against temptation, against sin, we are being told to not compromise, to call for the Lord's help. We cannot turn back, we cannot give into the temptation of turning back because we are needed. By God, by fellow christians and by everyone who is lost, who needs our help to find direction and guidance. Yes, I do believe it is a warning against that, but it is more uplifting than simply telling a story about someone who gave up, who became complacent and stopped fighting. It is about someone real, someone who faces the temptation we all do everyday, to give up, stop fighting and to have the satisfaction of giving in to the calls of the siren. The call at the end goes back to the beginning. What booming hate moves close, So vast that the clouds would follow? What looms, with thunder? And the water did fall. The booming hate is Satan, moving closer as we are more and more tempted by sin, by the sirens call. It's so big that the clouds follow. Later, begging the father to send his rain, makes me believe that the clouds following that hate, satan, are sent by the father, waiting and ready for us to send our call for help. The hate is looming, but with that thunder in the background, and then the rain falls. Turns the earth to mud, fills once dry veins with life. At the end, after calling the father to send his rain, it says we lay waste to their grip. The rain he has sent has disabled the enemy, allowing us to rise. The general flow of the song involves the beginning, where we (the christians) were brought back from death, our certain damnation. We were brought to face a world at war, fighting and being ruled by evil, by hate, by Satan. Then it gets into showing us that God has truly called us forth, by equipping us with the ability to call on his rain, to face off the enemy with him providing for our struggle. He grants us with the eyes to see the bane, our wisdom to see the true cause of the death and hate all around, the truth of the world. Although the song so sweet is calling to use, we cannot turn, we cannot compromise our lines and allow the enemy to cross at all. Also meaning that if we allow satan any hold on our life, it will only get stronger and stronger. It's not real, you'll see. The image Satan puts forth, the temptation, isn't real, and we cannot turn our eyes from what is. Then finally, at the end, singing in a beautiful manner, imitating that of a siren calling to us, is actually showing us the truth of what seems so true, so wonderful. It is granting us the wisdom to know that the call of satan, of his siren, is false, and can only lead to death. As we make the call, calling out to God for help, to our fellow Christians, we see the rain sent, we see the earth turn to mud, once dry veins filled with life God sends, and we see the Kings of the world lain to waste, we see their grip wasted, and then we rise.