Heartache, inherited ways, forgotten identity, and the danger of mistaking a beautiful counterfeit for the returning Christ.

In this reading, the hoped-for rescuer becomes a warning about the false Christ. He is attractive, courteous, and Scripturally persuasive—close enough to inherited expectations to be accepted without examination. The song also gives emotional language to a deeper memory: the storm of this flesh age began before our present lives, and the heaven we imagine resembles a place the soul once knew.