The best answer to this is the lyrics of the song itself.
Lyrics
THE MESSAGE
After the long night
Beyond a thousand years
It was time
For the message to come alive
Two hundred years ago
It was time for a revelation
To spring from the ground
With a whispering sound
And the voice of a fallen nation
How can you say
That it just doesn’t really matter
How can you say
There’s nowhere to go and there’s nothing to show
All the years
And all the dreams
And all the hopes of your life carry on
And I wanna tell you now
That it means so much to me
No never deny
I see it plain as day anyway
Like the sound of the wind
As it calls to take you home
It’s a new revelation
It’s my one revelation
Written in stone
That could never fade away
So many men have waited for this day
So I keep holdin on
It doesn’t matter what anyone says
I’ll hold on forever and ever and ever
It’s a new revelation
A voice from the past
Voices from the dust
You know it’s true
You know it’s true
You know it’s true
It’s a revelation
Running to the ends of the world
You know that it’s true
