On top of the world like a flag on a mountain
Feeling so high you can feel so alone
Unable to breathe at the height that you flew
Staring on clouds with no view of below
On top of a girl like a dream in a hotel
Falling towards something out of control
Unable to miss like the man in the tram
Crashing your car in Amsterdam
He did it without knowing, didn't feel a thing
He just wrecked it and kept going
The space around the stars
Is something that you know
A billion miles of darkness
Left your feeling low
The space around the stars
Is something that you know
Everything about you
So perfectly restrained
But everything inside you
Bites you
Everybody in the whole of the world
Feels the same inside
Everybody in the whole of the world
Everyone is only everyone else
Everybody's got to know
Everybody lives and loves and laughs and cries
And eats and sleeps and grows and dies
Everybody in the whole of the world
Is the same this time
Is the same inside
In the whole of the world
Feeling so high you can feel so alone
Unable to breathe at the height that you flew
Staring on clouds with no view of below
Falling towards something out of control
Unable to miss like the man in the tram
Crashing your car in Amsterdam
He just wrecked it and kept going
Is something that you know
A billion miles of darkness
Left your feeling low
The space around the stars
Is something that you know
So perfectly restrained
But everything inside you
Bites you
Feels the same inside
Everybody in the whole of the world
Everybody's got to know
Everybody lives and loves and laughs and cries
And eats and sleeps and grows and dies
Everybody in the whole of the world
Is the same this time
Is the same inside
In the whole of the world
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Such a beautiful way to and an album, the literal words of the last bit. We are one, we are all the same.
The beginning of the song could be open for multiple interpretations. Maybe a state of being, a phase of life? I don't know.
@Hanszel To me this song is about inequalities of life. The opening lines are about someone who thinks they are so high above others, so high that they are "unable to breathe at the height that they flew". These people think they can do things without consequence...."crashing your car in Amsterdam. He did it without knowing/He didn't feel a thing/He just wrecked it and kept going"
@Hanszel To me this song is about inequalities of life. The opening lines are about someone who thinks they are so high above others, so high that they are "unable to breathe at the height that they flew". These people think they can do things without consequence...."crashing your car in Amsterdam. He did it without knowing/He didn't feel a thing/He just wrecked it and kept going"
The chorus is how they feel they are familiar with being among the stars.
The chorus is how they feel they are familiar with being among the stars.
The end section is very powerful ( as well as difficult to sing)...
The end section is very powerful ( as well as difficult to sing) and speaks for itself.
@Hanszel To me this song is about inequalities of life. The opening lines are about someone who thinks they are so high above others, so high that they are "unable to breathe at the height that they flew". These people think they can do things without consequence...."crashing your car in Amsterdam. He did it without knowing/He didn't feel a thing/He just wrecked it and kept going"
@Hanszel To me this song is about inequalities of life. The opening lines are about someone who thinks they are so high above others, so high that they are "unable to breathe at the height that they flew". These people think they can do things without consequence...."crashing your car in Amsterdam. He did it without knowing/He didn't feel a thing/He just wrecked it and kept going"
The chorus is how they feel they are familiar with being among the stars.
The chorus is how they feel they are familiar with being among the stars.
The end section is very powerful ( as well as difficult to sing)...
The end section is very powerful ( as well as difficult to sing) and speaks for itself.
@Hanszel To me this song is about inequalities of life. The opening lines are about someone who thinks they are so high above others, so high that they are "unable to breathe at the height that they flew". These people think they can do things without consequence...."crashing your car in Amsterdam. He did it without knowing/He didn't feel a thing/He just wrecked it and kept going"
@Hanszel To me this song is about inequalities of life. The opening lines are about someone who thinks they are so high above others, so high that they are "unable to breathe at the height that they flew". These people think they can do things without consequence...."crashing your car in Amsterdam. He did it without knowing/He didn't feel a thing/He just wrecked it and kept going"
The chorus is how they feel they are familiar with being among the stars.
The chorus is how they feel they are familiar with being among the stars.
The end section is very powerful ( as well as difficult to sing)...
The end section is very powerful ( as well as difficult to sing) and speaks for itself.
@Hanszel To me this song is about inequalities of life. The opening lines are about someone who thinks they are so high above others, so high that they are "unable to breathe at the height that they flew". These people think they can do things without consequence...."crashing your car in Amsterdam. He did it without knowing/He didn't feel a thing/He just wrecked it and kept going"
@Hanszel To me this song is about inequalities of life. The opening lines are about someone who thinks they are so high above others, so high that they are "unable to breathe at the height that they flew". These people think they can do things without consequence...."crashing your car in Amsterdam. He did it without knowing/He didn't feel a thing/He just wrecked it and kept going"
The chorus is how they feel they are familiar with being among the stars.
The chorus is how they feel they are familiar with being among the stars.
The end section is very powerful ( as well as difficult to sing)...
The end section is very powerful ( as well as difficult to sing) and speaks for itself.
@Hanszel dunno why my reply was repeated!!
@Hanszel dunno why my reply was repeated!!
This is a powerful song about people who think they are above everyone else and beyond reproach. I love the lyric "unable to breathe at the height that you flew" it's hugely pictorial for me. These people think they are beyond reproach - crashing a car in Amsterdam and not thinking anything of it.
The finale is fabulous. Possibly my favourite Marillion song.
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I never tire of watching this performed live and listening to the lyrics.
from Wikipedia About "The Space", Steve Hogarth has said that "this song kind of started life in Amsterdam. When I was quite young I saw a tram come down the road and someone had parked a car too close to the tram line. It came down the road and it just tore the side of this car because it couldn't do anything else. It made the most fantastic noise as it did so. Fortunately there was nobody in the car and fortunately the trams in Amsterdam are very thick so I'm not sure the driver even noticed it happen. Years later when I was feeling a bit more like a rock star than I did when I saw it happen, I was thinking about my life. It occurred to me that I was a bit like that tram when I when I probably ripped the side of a few things I hadn't even felt and I hadn't slowed down either and I probably hadn't noticed. So the words to this song came from that realization. It was one of the first songs we put together when we met in January of 1989