basically my interpretation of the song is that during a point of all christian's spiritual walk they question whether to further pursue God or to slowly slip away to the world and fall amonst the shadows. it sounds like that maybe the voice of the song has "backslid" or has forgotten their faith. Many christians, including myself have let themselves fall away from their faith but later ultimately come back to God asking for his forgiveness. "how the freedom we had turned us up as dead men" sounds like many take the freedom God gives us. "were forgetting our forgiveness" is the point where God always forgives our sins if we have Jesus in our hearts. many people forget that and "backslide"- let one sin turn into ten, twenty, then a life full of sin instead of facing that first sin and asking for forgiveness.
basically my interpretation of the song is that during a point of all christian's spiritual walk they question whether to further pursue God or to slowly slip away to the world and fall amonst the shadows. it sounds like that maybe the voice of the song has "backslid" or has forgotten their faith. Many christians, including myself have let themselves fall away from their faith but later ultimately come back to God asking for his forgiveness. "how the freedom we had turned us up as dead men" sounds like many take the freedom God gives us. "were forgetting our forgiveness" is the point where God always forgives our sins if we have Jesus in our hearts. many people forget that and "backslide"- let one sin turn into ten, twenty, then a life full of sin instead of facing that first sin and asking for forgiveness.