Bring Him Home
A Father's Prayer for Peace and Joy: Bring Him Home Lyrics Analysis
Lyrics
God on high, hear my prayer.
Asking God, who is high above, to listen to the prayer.
In my need you have always been there.
Expressing a longstanding reliance on God in times of need.
He is young.
Referring to the person the singer is concerned about as young.
He's afraid.
Describing the person as fearful or anxious.
Let him rest, heaven blessed.
Wishing for the person's peaceful and blessed rest in heaven.
Bring him home.
Repeatedly requesting for the person to be brought home.
Bring him home.
-Bring him home.
-He's like the son I might have known,
Comparing the person to a son the singer might have had if granted by God.
If God had granted me a son.
-The summers die one by one.
Reflecting on the passage of time, with summers fading quickly.
How soon they fly on and on.
-And I am old,
Expressing the singer's old age and the inevitability of their departure.
And will be gone.
-Bring him peace.
Requesting for peace and joy for the young person who is described as a boy.
Bring him joy.
-He is young,
-He is only a boy
-You can take.
Giving and taking, asking for the person to be allowed to live freely.
You can give.
-Let him be.
-Let him live.
-If I die, let me die.
Expressing a willingness to sacrifice oneself if it means the person can live.
Let him live.
-Bring him home.
Reiterating the plea to bring the person home, emphasizing the urgency and importance.
Bring him home.
-Bring him home.
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