I think this song can actually be understood in many different ways, depending on the person listening to it.
What I take from the song is someone who has been lost for a long time, and spent their life the wrong way which they now regret ("a lifetime of yesterdays, all the wasted time on my hands"). They crossed the lines with people ("crossing lines"), they did wrong/bad things ("small crimes"), but now they are making the change and turning their life around ("taking back what is mine").
They have found their religion/spirituality and it's cleansing them, making them stronger ("I'm fine in the fire, I feed on the friction"). When you give your life to God, the fire of the Holy Spirit will cleanse you, there will be challenges of people turning against you for it, troubles and friction in life and relationships that will test your beliefs and will power. They are saying that they are okay with that, it will make them stronger in the end. They have found where they belong, or they feel they are exactly where they should be at this stage in their life ("I'm right where I should be"). A lot of people are uncomfortable with people who have given their life to God or found religion/spirituality, and will try to change them, even if it's not what these people want because there is nothing wrong with them ("Don't try and fix me").
They reiterate that they had been lost for so long, because they failed to find their way. It had made them feel out of place, thus bringing about them looking back on their life and wanting to change it from how it has been.
@Lexi16 Takes a lot of inner strength from God to go against the grain of sinful nature but some realize the pain from it means its working, the harder you push against the world the harder the world pushes back but then the more you see that God is the only remedy for the situation and death is the door to which God catches you and death itself dies and you end up on the other side in the complete opposite world.
@Lexi16 Takes a lot of inner strength from God to go against the grain of sinful nature but some realize the pain from it means its working, the harder you push against the world the harder the world pushes back but then the more you see that God is the only remedy for the situation and death is the door to which God catches you and death itself dies and you end up on the other side in the complete opposite world.
I think this song can actually be understood in many different ways, depending on the person listening to it.
What I take from the song is someone who has been lost for a long time, and spent their life the wrong way which they now regret ("a lifetime of yesterdays, all the wasted time on my hands"). They crossed the lines with people ("crossing lines"), they did wrong/bad things ("small crimes"), but now they are making the change and turning their life around ("taking back what is mine").
They have found their religion/spirituality and it's cleansing them, making them stronger ("I'm fine in the fire, I feed on the friction"). When you give your life to God, the fire of the Holy Spirit will cleanse you, there will be challenges of people turning against you for it, troubles and friction in life and relationships that will test your beliefs and will power. They are saying that they are okay with that, it will make them stronger in the end. They have found where they belong, or they feel they are exactly where they should be at this stage in their life ("I'm right where I should be"). A lot of people are uncomfortable with people who have given their life to God or found religion/spirituality, and will try to change them, even if it's not what these people want because there is nothing wrong with them ("Don't try and fix me").
They reiterate that they had been lost for so long, because they failed to find their way. It had made them feel out of place, thus bringing about them looking back on their life and wanting to change it from how it has been.
@Lexi16 Takes a lot of inner strength from God to go against the grain of sinful nature but some realize the pain from it means its working, the harder you push against the world the harder the world pushes back but then the more you see that God is the only remedy for the situation and death is the door to which God catches you and death itself dies and you end up on the other side in the complete opposite world.
@Lexi16 Takes a lot of inner strength from God to go against the grain of sinful nature but some realize the pain from it means its working, the harder you push against the world the harder the world pushes back but then the more you see that God is the only remedy for the situation and death is the door to which God catches you and death itself dies and you end up on the other side in the complete opposite world.