So, I can almost guarantee this isn't what the actual writers were intending, but there's a word in this song that brings it home in a very special, personal way that tugs a very specific, but sensitive heart-string.
I recently gave-up on being a full-time missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints because of several reasons, including a huge trail of faith. I longer believe in the church, but I still believe in God, and I have a very real, very difficult dilemma of knowing truth.
This much I know, this song is about finding truth, and I'm sure that's what the authors intended. Where it hits me personally is here:
"The mission's over now, and my breath is running out.
Can't let go of it, can't let go of it.
I didn't mean what I said, I didn't mean what I said.
I love you more than this. I love you more than this.
Then lights they fill the air, or were they always there?
I finally see it. I finally see it.
And I heard the captain say, I heard the captain say,
"You're always close to it, so very close to it."
There's so much energy in us."
My breath was long-out before my mission was over, but the mission they refer to is that of life, I'm sure. My mission, particularly because of the use of that specific word relates very well to life. So, like it's difficult to let go of life, it was also difficult to let-go of my mission, for many of the same reasons (loved ones, desires). I couldn't help but feeling bad though, because I had said things to people to get them to join the church that I felt weren't true. I'd lied in the name of God, and I didn't mean it, I felt horrible to the captain who continued to cheer me-on, even when I was defacing him. Since then, there has been a moment where I have seen the sky light-up almost literally with understanding and it continues to stay lit. All the while the Captain cheers me on throughout the rest of my real mission, urging me on however it need be, through the 'veil of faith' this "mighty sail" which got me-through my childhood, or by the thoughts of our great philosophers who's words built a fire inside me, even when my engine died and I had no desire to continue life, my real mission.
So, I can almost guarantee this isn't what the actual writers were intending, but there's a word in this song that brings it home in a very special, personal way that tugs a very specific, but sensitive heart-string. I recently gave-up on being a full-time missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints because of several reasons, including a huge trail of faith. I longer believe in the church, but I still believe in God, and I have a very real, very difficult dilemma of knowing truth. This much I know, this song is about finding truth, and I'm sure that's what the authors intended. Where it hits me personally is here:
"The mission's over now, and my breath is running out. Can't let go of it, can't let go of it. I didn't mean what I said, I didn't mean what I said. I love you more than this. I love you more than this. Then lights they fill the air, or were they always there? I finally see it. I finally see it. And I heard the captain say, I heard the captain say, "You're always close to it, so very close to it." There's so much energy in us."
My breath was long-out before my mission was over, but the mission they refer to is that of life, I'm sure. My mission, particularly because of the use of that specific word relates very well to life. So, like it's difficult to let go of life, it was also difficult to let-go of my mission, for many of the same reasons (loved ones, desires). I couldn't help but feeling bad though, because I had said things to people to get them to join the church that I felt weren't true. I'd lied in the name of God, and I didn't mean it, I felt horrible to the captain who continued to cheer me-on, even when I was defacing him. Since then, there has been a moment where I have seen the sky light-up almost literally with understanding and it continues to stay lit. All the while the Captain cheers me on throughout the rest of my real mission, urging me on however it need be, through the 'veil of faith' this "mighty sail" which got me-through my childhood, or by the thoughts of our great philosophers who's words built a fire inside me, even when my engine died and I had no desire to continue life, my real mission.