I So Hate Consequences lyrics by Relient K

this song is kind of like a Jonah story. he doesnt want to face up too his sins, like jonah couldn't face the evil people of ninevah. he tries to run from God. but as is normal with the Lord, he seeks him out and brings him into the family of God.

This song is about not just any father/son relationship, but it is about God and his child relationship. IT is about the son, which is in fact every person on earth, who sins, and is too afraid of what the consequnces will be, so they run away. Running away, however, just makes everything they were trying to escape from catch up with them that much sooner. It also very discouaging: "the red extinguishes the hope that the green ignites". Their "mistakes" haunt them until they repent, confessing their sins to the only one who can really forgive and make their past be something that just makes them stronger. When they do, they see God's love, His unfathomable grace and his unconditional forgiveness. At that moment, their mistakes become stepping stones into a better and richer existence with Christ.

I feel like this song is about a father/son or mother/son relationship. It seems the son has made a lot of mistakes and disappointed his parents in some way so bad, that he wanted to ditch everything he has and run away. He finally relizes he can't keep running from them, so when he goes back he learns that there was love there all along, and he needed to have that reassurment in his life.