I've been playing this one a lot lately learning the piano, so been thinking about it. This has been called a morose song about dying, as Rich explains on one interview, but to me you have to skip over the most powerful line in the song to think that.
When my body lies in the ruins
Of the lies that nearly ruined me
Will you pick up the pieces that were pure and true
and breathe your life into them, set them free
Probably the most interesting lyric in the song, depending on what he means by it is
... we're gonna die eventually
and it's no more or less our fault,
than it is our destiny
The wages of sin is death, so I have bought my own death, but i was also born with sin, so in a sense someone else bought my death as well.
Got some crazy life wisdom from Rich on
we have to learn to walk beneath
those mercies by which we're drawn
and now we wrestle in the dark
with these angels that we can't see
we will move on although the scars
oh lord, move inside of me.
I've been playing this one a lot lately learning the piano, so been thinking about it. This has been called a morose song about dying, as Rich explains on one interview, but to me you have to skip over the most powerful line in the song to think that.
When my body lies in the ruins Of the lies that nearly ruined me Will you pick up the pieces that were pure and true and breathe your life into them, set them free
Probably the most interesting lyric in the song, depending on what he means by it is
... we're gonna die eventually and it's no more or less our fault, than it is our destiny
The wages of sin is death, so I have bought my own death, but i was also born with sin, so in a sense someone else bought my death as well.
Got some crazy life wisdom from Rich on
we have to learn to walk beneath those mercies by which we're drawn and now we wrestle in the dark with these angels that we can't see we will move on although the scars oh lord, move inside of me.
Amazing song, gifted writer.