I think this song is about an old may praying for forgiveness and wishing to go to heaven. Lyrically, it's similar to "Abandoned" or "Like a Stone" by Audioslave.
His youth or happiness is "hard to remember," but the "shadow" of his "godless endeavors" is hard to forget, when "all that he wanted" was to be with God. He thinks god "longs for love, not for sympathy," so he asks God to "take away the shadow" over him; for forgiveness, and to be brought into "a house on a hill in oblivion" - to go to heaven.
I think this song is about an old may praying for forgiveness and wishing to go to heaven. Lyrically, it's similar to "Abandoned" or "Like a Stone" by Audioslave.
His youth or happiness is "hard to remember," but the "shadow" of his "godless endeavors" is hard to forget, when "all that he wanted" was to be with God. He thinks god "longs for love, not for sympathy," so he asks God to "take away the shadow" over him; for forgiveness, and to be brought into "a house on a hill in oblivion" - to go to heaven.