I think that this song means that there is a person that wakes up in the afterlife and realizes that he was a crappy person in life. That is pretty much the hell of dying. To realize that people didn't like you and you didn't do anything for people. And that comes to what Tcop said up there
. "give me a chance to be that person I want to be, Oh lord i'll try so hard, but you got to let go of me" which means they want to break the hold that the lord has on that person to change in their life and make things better. That's what I have come to believe.