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I'm tired of being here
On this hill
No one lives to be three hundred years
Like the way it used to be
I think they were giants
I think they were giants
On this hill, nothing grows except greed
You will stay to finish your work
As long as need be
As long as need be
On a clear day
I can see my old house
And my wife in the front yard
Talking with the friends
[Chorus:]
We gathered in spring
We gathered in spring
We gathered in spring
We gathered in spring
I'm tired of being here
On this hill
Where I'm sure to find my last meal
No one lives to be three hundred years
On a clear day
I can see my old house
And my wife in the front yard
Talking with the friends
[Chorus]
On this hill
No one lives to be three hundred years
Like the way it used to be
I think they were giants
I think they were giants
On this hill, nothing grows except greed
You will stay to finish your work
As long as need be
As long as need be
On a clear day
I can see my old house
And my wife in the front yard
Talking with the friends
[Chorus:]
We gathered in spring
We gathered in spring
We gathered in spring
We gathered in spring
I'm tired of being here
On this hill
Where I'm sure to find my last meal
No one lives to be three hundred years
On a clear day
I can see my old house
And my wife in the front yard
Talking with the friends
[Chorus]
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I see it as a nostalgia/regret/loneliness song. First, the narrator is nostalgic for a mythical time (when people lived to be 300 years and there were giants). Then, he's nostalgic for something in his own life (his old house, his wife, friends). That was a long time ago, when he was young (the spring). He's old now--I get to that in a second.
The loneliness is pretty clear: he's tired of being alone on the hill, where nothing grows. It's a bad place.
And the regret: he's old and he's going to die alone on the hill (it's where he's going to eat his last meal). Thus, he returns to the mythical nostalgia, when people lived 300 years, and perhaps he could have recaptured that which he lost, when he was young.