Higher

Anthem Lights' "Higher" opens inside a dream, not a sermon — "when dreaming I'm guided to another world... I don't want to leave the comfort of this place." It reads at first like ordinary escapism, the wish to stay asleep a little longer rather than face another ordinary day.

But the specific place the song keeps asking to go to isn't vague. "Can you take me higher, to a place where blind men see, to a place with golden streets" borrows imagery straight from Scripture rather than inventing a generic paradise — streets of gold are John's description of the new Jerusalem in Revelation, and eyes opened for the blind is Isaiah's promise of what God's coming restoration looks like. This isn't just any escape; it's a longing for the specific renewal the Bible describes.

"Let love replace all our hate" keeps the song from staying purely personal — the same golden-streets hope is also a hope for how things could actually be different here, not just somewhere else. "Up high I feel like I'm alive for the very first time" closes the loop: the place being asked for isn't an escape from real life, it's what real life was supposed to feel like all along.