Young Guns – Bones lyrics

The meaning I get from this song is that moment when you've just got over a really tough time in your life and you've realized that you have to find the strength and courage inside of your soul to fight and get through any hard situation and what it takes to achieve this, to gather all that, is that you must fight with yourself, which is our worst enemy sometimes.

To me this song has two meanings, the first is a relgious meaning the next is like a more personal meaning to someone.
The first meaning is like going up to jesus' death, "down under the night sky, i lay awake" may be when jesus was in gethesemne awaiting to be arrested. The next line, "praying to whoever will listen to me," that's saying jesus doesn't want to die so he's praying for everyone to stay away but they aren't and god isn't listening to him, he isn't saving jesus. The next line, "i fashioned my own cross, being crushed by its weight," is describing jesus' journey of carrying the cross, "there's no stronger message then dirt on your face," is when people started to kick dirt on him when he was down and everyone hated him for no reason. The chorus, means that he seen what must be done, and he feels his death coming, he feels god coming to jesus, but god doesn't reply to him so he has to face death alone. The second verse means that the holy spirit is with him so he has nothing to worry about, but his human body is too weak to survive this and he isn't strong enough like his spirit, everything he has faced here, the courage to do so has come from inside him because he feels neglect of some sort to god. The third verse means that everybody made their hell through their sins, they all hurt each other by doing this, but he got hurt the most from it, he had to die for the peoples sins. So he's telling the people that he's suffering for them so they can't hurt each other more then they already have, basically they have the easy way.
The second more personal meaning is, in the first verse he can't sleep due to a certain absence of a girl or a friend, and he wants that girl or friend to come back to him. (whether they left or died. Died seems more likely sue to the precise mention of "praying" to anybody for them to come back) "fashioned his own cross" basically means that he's creating a place around him that isn't good, and he's getting crushe by the place he has mentally created because it's so bad. An example would be like not eating sue to the ansence of the somebody. The man has obviously been hated on, the dirt could symbolise this and he's getting a very strong message, this also gives an idea that the person missing could of left him because of this. The chorus means that the atmosphere he has created is so bad its going to kill him too, he's realised this so he now forgets it all, he "deals in a different story" but he will never let go of the memories as they are a constant reminder of all the bad things that person has done, he also knows that he's better off on his own. The second verse means that his soul is willing to recover from his mentally created atmosphere but his body is too weak due to what the person has done to him, he is also saying that even thought the atmosphere is killing him all he needs is his soul. The third verse is saying that he created this living hell, the place killing him, but no one can hurt him more then what he has done too himself, even though that person has harmed his mentally.
That's what I get from the song but the religious one makes more sense. Thanks.