Castles In The Sky

Classic trance. Great song. To me this song is more about big industries and how they go down, go up, and then so on. What happens next? Why do we do it, anyways..? Do we need to? America's so obsessed with things that it's not even funny. And we got other countries with us, though.

I have wondered if "Why do we build castles in the sky?" is really asking: Why do we have false hope in God, Heaven, etcetera? It is just as possible, if not more so, that those things do not exist than it is possible that they do. Realistically, they can not be seen or proven. Yet, people believe in them wholeheartedly, Maybe just so they can feel better about life and death? "Build castles in the sky" could mean a belief in "Heaven", while also saying that it is unreachable, unrealistic, and/or impossible. Maybe?

The people who say this song is about heaven, they're right in a way. A castle in the sky clearly seems a wonderful, magical, and ideal place. So more accurately, I'm sure it represents imagination and "goals". "Why do we build castle's in the sky?" appears equivalent to "Why do we idealize?", "why do many feel the grass greener on the other side of the fence?", and/or "why do people feel the future can ever be better than the present, when the present is habituated to be received in a certain way by each one of us?" This song is about happiness, about dreams, about goals, and it is basically questioning the reasons why any of us do what we do each day. Are we striving for something without knowing why? Or do we know and understand what we're doing and why? This song is a calling: Find out what life means to you. Then live that with no remorse. Religion is nonsense, an afterlife seem unimportant speaking that once we lose our brains we can't carry any memories with us (e.g. if we get into a car accident and damage our brains, it changes our world perception. In other words, our "soul" and the information it holds is dependent upon physical characteristics to exist.) All that we have is our lives and life itself is comnpletely unapologetic. What happens happens for better or worse and there's no reckoning, no reconciliation, no balance that will ever take place outside of what creatures and forces of nature themselves inflict upon one another. After that, the rest is silence. Enlightenment is to know and behave on knowledge of the real truth about life. And that is, everyone has an agenda so follow your own, maxims are basically useless because every delivered "truth" about life can be done or translated in an opposing way that will also be real world relevant, and the ability to discern the difference between reality and imagining, of which each is a part to the other, is of utmost importance. Taking time to sit alone and think things through will eventually show you to what you really want in your life and what it really means to you.

The concept of "Castles in the Sky" is taken from Henry David Thoreau. It's been a very important quote in my and my family's life.

"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them."

In the quote, it's saying it's okay to have your ambitions up high where they may seem unattainable. However, they're not necessarily impossible, if you just take steps underneath to reach them.

The song is questioning why you have such lofty goals, but perhaps looking back on the original quote will help. It's okay, as long as you build the foundations under so your dreams don't collapse.

DiZ soNg be PuttIng Me in A tRaNCe.... it chills me out when I'm mad or ticked! AND this be best tRaNCe and rave song ever... :)

This song is so awesome! It's kinda like it's asking you why exactly do you live.... Well, that's the way I see it at least...Hmm... It's a great song, I listen to it all the time

i think this song poses the question "why do you continue to set unattainable goals?"

build the castles closer to the ground; your dreams where you can reach them.

This is one of my fave techno songs no matter what I am always in the mood to rave when I hear this.. I makes me wonder alot of things though too.. --Mackie

there's a lot of questions in this song.. :op

tight ass song.

This is an awesome song. I kind of agree with you, wilco. But I seem to think there's something else in there. I can't really touch on it, though. It really makes you think about your life though. Great song.