This song, in my opinion, was heavily influenced by the CS Lewis novel "Till We Have Faces". The book is about this girl who is a princess in a primitive ancient nation who, throughout her life, begins to reject her nations religion. But by the end of her life, she has an encounter with her God which causes her to return to her religion she once considered superstitious. That is a really basic, superficial interpretation as TWHF is an extremely deep novel, but the theme is still the same. Also, I remember Dustin was reading this book during the writing and recording of this album, so it would make sense that it inspired the lyrics for this song.
Also, there are similarities with this and the biblical story of Job. The line, "I had heard of you but now my eyes have seen" is a paraphrase from Job 42:5.
Anyway, I hope this helps somebody understand where Dustin was coming from when writing this song.
This song, in my opinion, was heavily influenced by the CS Lewis novel "Till We Have Faces". The book is about this girl who is a princess in a primitive ancient nation who, throughout her life, begins to reject her nations religion. But by the end of her life, she has an encounter with her God which causes her to return to her religion she once considered superstitious. That is a really basic, superficial interpretation as TWHF is an extremely deep novel, but the theme is still the same. Also, I remember Dustin was reading this book during the writing and recording of this album, so it would make sense that it inspired the lyrics for this song.
Also, there are similarities with this and the biblical story of Job. The line, "I had heard of you but now my eyes have seen" is a paraphrase from Job 42:5.
Anyway, I hope this helps somebody understand where Dustin was coming from when writing this song.