a sense of yearning

Over the Rhine has a song called Snow Angels, from their album of the same title. Listening to it as we drove home from a friends last night, I was struck by the following verse

Snow angel, snow angel
Someday I’m gonna fly
This cold and broken heart of mine
Will one day wave goodbye
Goodbye to this cruel wicked world
And all the tears I’ve cried
Snow angel, snow angel
I’ll meet you in the sky

Certainly they are not the first to communicate this sense of yearning. Nonetheless, it stuck me as an uncommon sentiment. There seems to be an existential understanding in this of the need for something else. Although sung very pleasantly, I can almost hear Karin crying as she sings these words. Once again, I feel more intimately connected with an artist I have never met (actually I met them once, but that's not the point) than I really ever have with a church community. I just don't get this sense of desperation with most Christians I meet. Certainly they profess the existence of sin and an eternity free of it. What I sense more is a fear of eventual suffering rather than a desire to be delivered from it in the here and now.