I believe this is about a severe crisis of faith. I won't go into line-by-line details this early in the song's life, especially before the lyrics are corrected. But the line, "All that I've known, buildings of stone fall to the ground without a sound," is particularly telling. His testimony (knowledge his beliefs were true) was unshakable, like it was built of stone. You can hear the anguish as he is losing his faith. He's even calling God things like Heartbreaker, Gatekeeper, Dreammaker, and Lifetaker.
What a beautifully artistic portrait of what many young religious people experience.
I believe this is about a severe crisis of faith. I won't go into line-by-line details this early in the song's life, especially before the lyrics are corrected. But the line, "All that I've known, buildings of stone fall to the ground without a sound," is particularly telling. His testimony (knowledge his beliefs were true) was unshakable, like it was built of stone. You can hear the anguish as he is losing his faith. He's even calling God things like Heartbreaker, Gatekeeper, Dreammaker, and Lifetaker.
What a beautifully artistic portrait of what many young religious people experience.