Into the Darkness
Journey Through Life's Shadows: Into the Darkness by Drew Miller
Lyrics
Go ahead and exhaust your distractions
Encouragement to confront and overcome distractions.
Drink deep from the dying well
Metaphorically suggesting drawing wisdom from challenging experiences.
Cash in your hope for resignation
Sacrificing hope for acceptance of circumstances.
Go make your heaven of hell
Finding solace or happiness even in difficult situations.
When the wind has escaped from your sails
Symbolizing a loss of momentum or enthusiasm.
After the afterglow
Reference to a fading positive experience.
When there is no choice but to fail
Facing unavoidable failure or challenges.
Into the darkness, into the darkness you’ll go
Embracing a journey into the unknown or difficult times.
Into the darkness you’ll go
Reiteration of the willingness to face darkness.
Go live your best life full of virtue
Living a morally upright life.
Wage war on your only soul
Struggling with internal conflicts or self-destructive behaviors.
Don’t let the smallest thing hurt you
Resilience against minor setbacks.
Or take away your hard-earned control
Protecting one's autonomy and stability.
When every good boy isn’t fine
Challenging the traditional concept of goodness.
And together the wheat and chaff grow
Unity of positive and negative elements in life.
When holiness loses its shine
The fading significance of spiritual purity.
Into the darkness, into the darkness you’ll go
Embracing challenges or uncertainties with courage.
Into the darkness you’ll go
Reiterating the acceptance of facing darkness.
Go set out to make the world pretty
Contributing positively to the world.
Redeem it with story and song
Redemption through storytelling and artistic expression.
Say you’ll recognize truth for its beauty
Valuing truth for its intrinsic beauty.
And beauty will right every wrong
Belief in the power of beauty to correct injustices.
When death comes to deal its level worst
Facing the worst of life with bravery.
And all the fair things decompose
Symbolizing the decay of positive aspects of life.
Making a mockery of your thirst
Making light of challenges and struggles.
Into the darkness, into the darkness you’ll go
Embracing difficulties or uncertainties willingly.
Into the darkness you’ll go
Reaffirming the acceptance of entering darkness.
Go dedicate yourself to the riddle
Dedicating oneself to unraveling life's mysteries.
Let nothing go unperceived
Encouragement to be fully aware of one's surroundings.
Make every mystery little
Turning complex issues into simple understanding.
Be the last one to believe
Maintaining belief in the face of skepticism.
When the world makes more than just sense
When the world defies logic or expectations.
And it’s not enough merely to know
Recognition that knowledge alone may not be sufficient.
When the truth has confounded your dearest defense
Confronting personal vulnerabilities and weaknesses.
Into the darkness, into the darkness you’ll go
Repeated affirmation of facing challenges bravely.
Into the darkness you’ll go
Reiterating the acceptance of entering darkness.
Go make yourself near to the broken
Being empathetic and supportive to those in pain.
Make peace, make dinner, make room
Promoting peace, nurturing relationships, and creating space for others.
Believe in the stories of women
Believing in the strength of women's stories.
Who return from an empty tomb
Hope and inspiration derived from overcoming challenges.
When you have befriended your grief
Accepting and befriending personal grief.
And there’s nothing left to show
When personal struggles become internalized and invisible.
All that you’ve lost, one day you will keep
Assurance that losses will be reclaimed in the future.
When into the darkness, into the darkness you go
Repeated affirmation of facing challenges bravely.
Into the darkness you go
Reiterating the acceptance of entering darkness.
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