I think that this song is about not taking life too seriously and also about acknowledging the gift of life that God has given us and praising him with gratitude daily.
I think that maybe in the first verse Jason is trying to imagine what it is like to look through God's eyes. He is looking down at his own creation, a girl who is aware of him, looking back at him. She lives on Earth, yet she means the universe to him.
Jason, I think, is writing about God's presence in his life. He knows that God is watching his actions and that by guessing at the date and time he is implying that compared to God's knowledge, we really know nothing - even about the things we feel sure of.
Then, in the second verse, he is talking about God. If you remember a Children's book called The Giving Tree, it is about this tree that gives a little boy everything he had - his branches to swing on, some wood to burn for warmth, etc. The boy keeps taking and taking and never gives anything in return, yet the tree still nurtures him even when it is only a stump, it offers itself as a seat for the boy.
I too am baffled by "the call of the wild" phrase. But whenever I hear it, I think of this movie I saw called "Expelled" (documentary with ben stein) about teaching evolution in schools and how the educational instutitution is so against teaching creationalism that many teachers are afraid to talk about it in schools in fear of being "expelled" from teaching. Anyway, "The order of the primates" is what made me think of it because I think of that famous picture that depicts how humans evolved from apes.
The congregation in his mind is the church giving thanks to their loving creator.
I think that this song is about not taking life too seriously and also about acknowledging the gift of life that God has given us and praising him with gratitude daily.
I think that maybe in the first verse Jason is trying to imagine what it is like to look through God's eyes. He is looking down at his own creation, a girl who is aware of him, looking back at him. She lives on Earth, yet she means the universe to him.
Jason, I think, is writing about God's presence in his life. He knows that God is watching his actions and that by guessing at the date and time he is implying that compared to God's knowledge, we really know nothing - even about the things we feel sure of.
Then, in the second verse, he is talking about God. If you remember a Children's book called The Giving Tree, it is about this tree that gives a little boy everything he had - his branches to swing on, some wood to burn for warmth, etc. The boy keeps taking and taking and never gives anything in return, yet the tree still nurtures him even when it is only a stump, it offers itself as a seat for the boy.
I too am baffled by "the call of the wild" phrase. But whenever I hear it, I think of this movie I saw called "Expelled" (documentary with ben stein) about teaching evolution in schools and how the educational instutitution is so against teaching creationalism that many teachers are afraid to talk about it in schools in fear of being "expelled" from teaching. Anyway, "The order of the primates" is what made me think of it because I think of that famous picture that depicts how humans evolved from apes.
The congregation in his mind is the church giving thanks to their loving creator.