This seems to me to be a religious song, but an offbeat and unusual one. The "distant light" is God and/or heaven, and the stranger in the second verse is the devil. From the point of view of the narrator, the important thing is the search, not any expectation of reaching the destination.
This seems to me to be a religious song, but an offbeat and unusual one. The "distant light" is God and/or heaven, and the stranger in the second verse is the devil. From the point of view of the narrator, the important thing is the search, not any expectation of reaching the destination.