I use to think that this song was about the damage we are doing to our environment.
I have changed my way of thinking. These lyrics speak to me now like never before. I hear in these lyrics the sorrow and hopelessness of a man who had an opportunity for happiness, a light in his life, a bright and beautiful future but it slipped away from him because he could not break from his past commitments. Because of a strong sense of honer and duty he feels his one true chance is lost forever. He trods through life now questioning and regretting who he is. Knowing inside he will have to accept the pain and sorrow as his rather than cause that pain and sorrow for others.
I think songs like this can mean what you want or need them to mean.
@Manfred33 absolutely brilliant interpretation man. This is exactly what I am going through now because of my "now only apparently I have found my choice of wife and life partner" to have been the single worst life choice I could have ever went with. But loyal as us men are, I feel that I denied it to myself for 40 hard years of endless work and struggle to TRY to make it work. For it to give me one final HUGE kick in the balls, and here I stand, trying to make sense of it and start my life over...
@Manfred33 absolutely brilliant interpretation man. This is exactly what I am going through now because of my "now only apparently I have found my choice of wife and life partner" to have been the single worst life choice I could have ever went with. But loyal as us men are, I feel that I denied it to myself for 40 hard years of endless work and struggle to TRY to make it work. For it to give me one final HUGE kick in the balls, and here I stand, trying to make sense of it and start my life over at 61 years old from where I was at 17 when I met MY HELL ON EARTH
I use to think that this song was about the damage we are doing to our environment. I have changed my way of thinking. These lyrics speak to me now like never before. I hear in these lyrics the sorrow and hopelessness of a man who had an opportunity for happiness, a light in his life, a bright and beautiful future but it slipped away from him because he could not break from his past commitments. Because of a strong sense of honer and duty he feels his one true chance is lost forever. He trods through life now questioning and regretting who he is. Knowing inside he will have to accept the pain and sorrow as his rather than cause that pain and sorrow for others. I think songs like this can mean what you want or need them to mean.
@Manfred33 absolutely brilliant interpretation man. This is exactly what I am going through now because of my "now only apparently I have found my choice of wife and life partner" to have been the single worst life choice I could have ever went with. But loyal as us men are, I feel that I denied it to myself for 40 hard years of endless work and struggle to TRY to make it work. For it to give me one final HUGE kick in the balls, and here I stand, trying to make sense of it and start my life over...
@Manfred33 absolutely brilliant interpretation man. This is exactly what I am going through now because of my "now only apparently I have found my choice of wife and life partner" to have been the single worst life choice I could have ever went with. But loyal as us men are, I feel that I denied it to myself for 40 hard years of endless work and struggle to TRY to make it work. For it to give me one final HUGE kick in the balls, and here I stand, trying to make sense of it and start my life over at 61 years old from where I was at 17 when I met MY HELL ON EARTH