Let's look inside ourselves,
Together we can see what we will find
But let's do it together
Don’t leave me alone at this time,
What time? When I look inside
For I'm afraid of what I will discover inside
I'm afraid of what I will discover
Cause you told me that I would find a hole,
You told me but was it there?
Within the fragile substance of my soul
A hole in the heart
And I have filled this void with things unreal,
And now I'm admitting it was there because I am putting things into it.
And all the while my character it steals
And this is what it's doing to me.
Darkness is a harsh term don’t you think?
Are my desires really that bad?
And yet it dominates the things I see
Yet all I see is darkness... maybe they are.
It seems that all my bridges have been burned,
I've made a commitment I'm not going back on
But you say that’s exactly how this grace thing works
To receive this Grace I had to burn some bridges
It’s not the long walk home that will change this heart,
Its nothing I do on my own strength
But the welcome I receive with the restart
the welcome at the restart is what changed the heart... Grace
Darkness is a harsh term don’t you think?
And yet it dominates the things I see
---------------------------------------------------------------- Notice the change of tense
Darkness is a harsh term don’t you think?
And yet it dominates the things I've seen
The darkness is now past tense.
Stars hide your fires,
MacBeth didn't want light to shine on his dark soul
These here are my desires
His dark desires
And I will give them up to you this time around
Unlike Macbeth, I will give them up (read the booklet)
And so, I’ll be found with my stake stuck in this ground
And so now I'm in new ground. remember I was on a journey, that started with Grace, I burned any chance of going back, and where have I arrived to?
Marking the territory of this newly impassioned soul
An impassioned soul. What triumph.
But you, you’ve gone too far this time
You have neither reason nor rhyme
With which to take this soul that is so rightfully mine
Now this last Stanza confuses us unless you take in the context of listening to all of M&S's songs. The emotion in the way the lyrics are sung are always related to the meaning in the lyrics. This is part of what makes them an amazing band. Thus the tone that this is sung in is more of a joyful irony. It is not angst, or sadness, or anger. It is a gentle kid with a close friend, and indeed is saying, that you haven't gone to far in taking my soul.
So...
Giant hole in our hearts, that we can't fill but grace does, and when our desires are given up the result is an impassioned soul. The victory in this song is unmistakeable to a messed up pastor's kid like me who is finally starting to be captivated by the beauty of the Grace of Christ.
Roll away your stone, I’ll roll away mine
Cause you told me that I would find a hole,
Darkness is a harsh term don’t you think?
It seems that all my bridges have been burned,
Darkness is a harsh term don’t you think? And yet it dominates the things I see ---------------------------------------------------------------- Notice the change of tense Darkness is a harsh term don’t you think? And yet it dominates the things I've seen
Stars hide your fires,
But you, you’ve gone too far this time You have neither reason nor rhyme With which to take this soul that is so rightfully mine
Now this last Stanza confuses us unless you take in the context of listening to all of M&S's songs. The emotion in the way the lyrics are sung are always related to the meaning in the lyrics. This is part of what makes them an amazing band. Thus the tone that this is sung in is more of a joyful irony. It is not angst, or sadness, or anger. It is a gentle kid with a close friend, and indeed is saying, that you haven't gone to far in taking my soul.
So...
Giant hole in our hearts, that we can't fill but grace does, and when our desires are given up the result is an impassioned soul. The victory in this song is unmistakeable to a messed up pastor's kid like me who is finally starting to be captivated by the beauty of the Grace of Christ.