'How can you be that mad at somebody and still love them that much?' songwriter Aaron Barker wondered.
, Newsweek Columnist, Vice President of Content at Salem Media Group and host of"Our American Stories"Songwriter Aaron Barker's son was born just two weeks after he turned 17. But he wasn't filled with dread at the prospect of being a father at such a young age.
It would take Barker a long time to learn that fatherhood entails more—much more—than being a friend to a son. More than 16 years, to be precise, when his son reached an age when boys test their father's boundaries, patience and love. It wasn't just the son who had a hard time sleeping that night. The father, it turns out, was still trying to process what had happened. He had his own doubts about how he'd handled things, not certain he'd administered the proper dosage of discipline to his son. No father ever is.But there was a bigger question lurking in the songwriter's head. A more existential question. The very same question any of us who've ever raised kids wrestle with if we have any sense.
"So I got the guitar, and I'm playing and praying and thinking, looking for this answer, and this song was the answer to it." "That's the way God loves us," Barker explained."And that's why it's in us all the time. We're born with it. You can get pretty mad at somebody you love, but you still love them. And then I thought, 'How cool is that? Maybe I can get away with some mistakes I've made and still get in the gates, you know? When it's all over?'"
In the third and magnificent final verse, the narrator dreams that he's died and is standing outside heaven's gate, and sings these words:When suddenly I realized there must be some mistake/Then somewhere from the other side, I heard those words again
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