I agree that the feeling of the song has to do with sleep, rest and escape, but I relate more with SoBeR's ideas of the walls we build and the difficulties we have in changing.
We often feel it's wrong (a "crime" even) to change our ideas and admit that we've been wrong in our atitudes for some time ("all those yesterdays"). So the song's saying: give up your struggle, cause it's only doing you harm and it's ok to admit you were wrong or off track.
Coupled with this comes the seductiveness of rest as an escape and it feels to me that the resting is sort of the acknowledgement of defeat (that you were wrong in something and are giving up). The rest and escape is something a person might have been fighting against, but should give in to and admit their mistakes.
I agree that the feeling of the song has to do with sleep, rest and escape, but I relate more with SoBeR's ideas of the walls we build and the difficulties we have in changing. We often feel it's wrong (a "crime" even) to change our ideas and admit that we've been wrong in our atitudes for some time ("all those yesterdays"). So the song's saying: give up your struggle, cause it's only doing you harm and it's ok to admit you were wrong or off track. Coupled with this comes the seductiveness of rest as an escape and it feels to me that the resting is sort of the acknowledgement of defeat (that you were wrong in something and are giving up). The rest and escape is something a person might have been fighting against, but should give in to and admit their mistakes.