I've been listening to this song for years and just realized something about it.
I feel like it's about Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane right before he's crucified. He talks about how "they come" and how the "lanterns are lit". And the thing that makes me love this interpretation also has to do with a lyric interpretation. I've always heard "Why you sleeping?" But "While you're sleeping" could work too. I see this as the disciples sleeping while Jesus is going through all of this agony in preparation for his crucifixion.
He says "I can feel this sinking in" talking about the fact that it's so close. Everything builds until he says "And now his blood will flow" making me think of how His blood was spilled for us. He also says "it's the only way," which mirrors the beauty of how Jesus prayed for there to be another way, but, ultimately, gave himself to this because he knew it was the only way for justice and mercy to be equally and simultaneously satisfied.
I've been listening to this song for years and just realized something about it.
I feel like it's about Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane right before he's crucified. He talks about how "they come" and how the "lanterns are lit". And the thing that makes me love this interpretation also has to do with a lyric interpretation. I've always heard "Why you sleeping?" But "While you're sleeping" could work too. I see this as the disciples sleeping while Jesus is going through all of this agony in preparation for his crucifixion.
He says "I can feel this sinking in" talking about the fact that it's so close. Everything builds until he says "And now his blood will flow" making me think of how His blood was spilled for us. He also says "it's the only way," which mirrors the beauty of how Jesus prayed for there to be another way, but, ultimately, gave himself to this because he knew it was the only way for justice and mercy to be equally and simultaneously satisfied.