I am confident in what this song is talking about.
If you are a christian teenager, then you know what it is like at christian youth conferences, church retreats, or revivals. This song is all about those kind of christian revival scenes, the kind where people are crying and shouting out to God, crying their faces out, and jumping up and down while praising God.
This song is told from the perspective of a cynical, skeptical person who does not believe in the sincerity of those types of events. We have all thought or felt it before... "everyone here is just acting..."
Here is my thorough explanation:
1st verse: "Irresponsible child, get a hold of yourself. You look so different when you lay your everything where peopel can see it."
This is the skeptic seeing everyone around him crying their faces out to God, and he is judging them. He calls these people irresponsible children, just babies acting stupid. To the skeptic, these people look nothing like how he remembers them, as fun friends, and normal people, now they are acting all dramatic and emotional.
Chorus: "everyone here knows how important this is. their faces make them look so serious."
This is talking about how everyone at the retreat/revival/conference knows how precious the oppurtunity is to meet God, and nobody wants to miss out on a chance to truly feel the holy spirit moving. And the 2nd line is a very cynical comment about how when people are praying and praising, they usually close their eyes and change their facial expression into some sort of super-dramatic, emotional look.
2nd verse: "my precious boy, i know how hard this must get. ill give you half a minute, get int the car... scream yell shout etc"
This is the response of God talkign to the skeptic. He is saying 'Iknow how hard your life must get." God understands the skeptic regardless of how many defense mechanisms he constructs to resist the power of the holy spirit. God says to the skeptic "if you dont like this stereotypical scene of people crying and praying, then just leave! get in your car and go somewhere where you can be alone andj ust pray to me sincerely without worrying about all these other people. he says scream! yell! shout! do whatever you need to spill your guts out to me and just please tell me what you are truly feeling!
Bridge: (Those lyrics are wrong) "something more will have to stop you now, unending grace will make you leave the ground."
This is the climax, the breaking through of the holy spirit to the cynical skeptic. As he skeptic begins to pray, he begins to lose his defensive walls and something more is going to have to stop him from becoming emotional as well. the grace of god is going to make him leave hte ground, which is just a clever way of saying he is going to join in with everyone else and start jumping while singing praise songs with everyone else.
I am confident in what this song is talking about. If you are a christian teenager, then you know what it is like at christian youth conferences, church retreats, or revivals. This song is all about those kind of christian revival scenes, the kind where people are crying and shouting out to God, crying their faces out, and jumping up and down while praising God.
This song is told from the perspective of a cynical, skeptical person who does not believe in the sincerity of those types of events. We have all thought or felt it before... "everyone here is just acting..."
Here is my thorough explanation:
1st verse: "Irresponsible child, get a hold of yourself. You look so different when you lay your everything where peopel can see it."
This is the skeptic seeing everyone around him crying their faces out to God, and he is judging them. He calls these people irresponsible children, just babies acting stupid. To the skeptic, these people look nothing like how he remembers them, as fun friends, and normal people, now they are acting all dramatic and emotional.
Chorus: "everyone here knows how important this is. their faces make them look so serious."
This is talking about how everyone at the retreat/revival/conference knows how precious the oppurtunity is to meet God, and nobody wants to miss out on a chance to truly feel the holy spirit moving. And the 2nd line is a very cynical comment about how when people are praying and praising, they usually close their eyes and change their facial expression into some sort of super-dramatic, emotional look.
2nd verse: "my precious boy, i know how hard this must get. ill give you half a minute, get int the car... scream yell shout etc"
This is the response of God talkign to the skeptic. He is saying 'Iknow how hard your life must get." God understands the skeptic regardless of how many defense mechanisms he constructs to resist the power of the holy spirit. God says to the skeptic "if you dont like this stereotypical scene of people crying and praying, then just leave! get in your car and go somewhere where you can be alone andj ust pray to me sincerely without worrying about all these other people. he says scream! yell! shout! do whatever you need to spill your guts out to me and just please tell me what you are truly feeling!
Bridge: (Those lyrics are wrong) "something more will have to stop you now, unending grace will make you leave the ground."
This is the climax, the breaking through of the holy spirit to the cynical skeptic. As he skeptic begins to pray, he begins to lose his defensive walls and something more is going to have to stop him from becoming emotional as well. the grace of god is going to make him leave hte ground, which is just a clever way of saying he is going to join in with everyone else and start jumping while singing praise songs with everyone else.