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Never want to be old
And I don't want dependence
It's no fun to be told
That you can't blame your parents any more

I'm finding it hard
To hang from a star
Don't want to be
Never want to be old

Sullen and bored the kids stay
And in this way wish away each day
Stoned in the mall the kids play
And in this way wish away each day

I don't really know
If I care what is normal
And I'm not really sure
If the pills I've been taking are helping

I'm wasting my life
Hurting inside
I don't really know
And I'm not really sure

Sullen and bored the kids stay
And in this way wish away each day
Stoned in the mall the kids play
And in this way wish away each day

Sullen and bored the kids stay
And in this way they wish away each day
Stoned in the mall the kids play
And in this way wish away each day
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There is a generation of people, myself included, who don't want to raise a family, don't want to grow-up or old, but have already wasted most of their young life. And we can see the next group of kids wasting theirs.

@Jack1982 Ah well, at least you're listening to PT and spending time on SM, so you've not wasted some part of your life :)

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I love the 'can't blame your parents' lyric... rings true and it's scary! This is my favourite song off the album; it's typical of Porcupine Tree.. guitar at end sounds like Trains - another fav

@jorutt also noticed the similarities in the final riff, two excelent songs, that I\'m proud to have discovered despite not knowing much about the genre

@jorutt also noticed the similarities in the final riff, two excelent songs, that I\'m proud to have discovered despite not knowing much about the genre

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The whole album makes me feel really guilty >_>

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I think it's all about how kids don't want to grow up, they want to keep their meaningless days of youth going forever. But they can't stop getting old, "I'm finding it hard, To hang from a star" losing their ability to dream. And that's what I think it's about, but that's kinda what the whole album's about, Steven Wilson, and his fear that this next generation is going to end up useless, meaningless, and dead

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I bet the "Trains" ending was put here on purpose. Just remember the words:

"Always the summers are slipping away Find me a way for making it stay"

I think that both these songs have the same sad emotion, they are full of grief for our childhood days. It's amazing how PT just pulls those feelings out of the depths of our souls and into the open.

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Where will life go, now that the new generation is starting to take place, being drastically different from the other generations? Children that grow up in a world like today will not want to work in this society, since everything has been completed from other generations. I'll admit it, I'm a millennial and I'm super lazy, I don't want to make a living, working day through day. If others have a mindset similar to this, how would the world be run in the future, sure it'd be drastically different, since we're accustomed to so many things (technology) that weren't around years ago.

This song is my absolute favourite from Porcupine Tree, being the only song in history that has made me cry actual tears. I would have never thought that would happened in a million years, but the harmonization and melody just forces emotions into me that no other song or band does.

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Sentimental is the kid realising he's now getting old, and doesn't want to. But in Normal, he realises he's still young and doesn't want to be there, but longs to be old, to look back on when he's young. "Wish I was old and a little sentimental". Something like that anyway.

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This song is incredible like most of PT's work. I love how the end starts to sound like Trains as well! I wonder if the songs are linked somehow...

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Yes, the "Trains riff" is a link to the next song, "Way out of here". As you know the song starts with: "Out at the train tracks I dream of escape" So in this moment our protagonist is in the house of his cousin, experiencing everything from "Trains", and after that he's leaving again in "Way Out Of Here".

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lots of skepticism in this song, makes you feel quite bad:S