“’cause i know the waves will rush over my face And wash clean the heart break from me” The lyric conjures an image of baptism. In baptism we enter into and hold close the life of Jesus that leads us from death into life and restores our broken hearts. Lent is traditionally a time of preparation for baptism because our baptisms are part of the Easter story; of taking up our cross and finding our lives not in what the world can give but in how we can serve in the life of the Kingdom now.
Cleanse me with hyssop, and I will be clean;
Psalm 51:7
wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.