Restless

I feel this song is expressing the endurance a man puts out in his difficult journey to get closer to God. This man is not only restless looking for God, he is relentless. He’s not going to stop. He might fall down but he so desperately needs God in his life that he compares himself to “the raindrop falling down, Always longing for the deeper ground.” While he is persistent in his pursuits, he not perfect. The lines “I am the one that you left behind/I am the thorn stuck in your side/I am the bored and clouded eyes” indicate to me this guy is a slacker, always at the back of the pack playing catch up, a little annoying at times, and not always on the same page as everyone else. This is great because no matter what’s going wrong with this man’s bad habits, he is still, as Foreman writes in the last line “Looking for the well that won’t run dry.” The song ends with what can be called the man’s arrival in heaven when “At last completed and complete/The tide of tear and pain subside/Laughter drinks them dry” and all is well. This song is interesting because it arcs over the whole Christian experience of one man’s journey of salvation.