Missing Lyrics
I saw the queen
Swam out below her star on sea beneath
Though I lifted up my hands to her
She never lifted me
[Chorus]
Oh something's missing in me
I felt it deep within me
As lovers left me to bleed alone
[Verse 2]
Found something sweet
On the island with the Daughters of Eve
But through thick and thin they've gone away
And only left their grief
[Chorus]
Oh, something's missing in me
I felt it deep within me
As lovers left me to bleed alone
Oh, something's missing in me
I felt it deep within me
As lovers left me to bleed alone
[Post-Chorus]
Something's missing in me
Something's missing in me
Down here, Love wasn't meant to be
It wasn't meant to be for me
All is vanity underneath the sun
All is vanity
[Chorus]
Oh, something's missing in me
I felt it deep within me
As lovers left me to bleed alone
Oh, something's missing in me
I felt it deep within me
As lovers left me to bleed alone
[Post-Chorus]
Something's missing in me
Something's missing in me
About
“Missing” is about the experience of someone who is seeking love (or perhaps fulfillment or meaning) but not finding it. The singer is repeatedly disappointed by different “lovers”, and the song itself is ultimately despairing of the possibility of finding love.
In the context of the album, of course, we know that the band believes that everyone will find love in Christ. Christians, coming together to be the Church, aka the “Bride of Christ”, are in a very real way “lovers” of Christ.
The sense that this song expresses of searching for love is also reflected in the experience of many Christians before their conversions. Famously, Augustine said in his book, Confessions, “You [God] have made us for Yourself, and our hearts are restless until they rest in You.”
Q&A
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- 2.Again
- 3.Chasm
- 4.Missing
- 5.This Close
- 6.The Kind
- 7.In the Dark
- 9.Swept Away
- 10.Tiny Heart
- 12.Treasure
- 13.Circle
- 14.Arise
- 15.Uncle Bobby
- 16.Break Your Knees
- 17.Enemy
- 18.Have We Lost
- 19.Who Am I
- 20.Stay
- 21.Bitter Sweet