This song is brilliant,I love how all the instruments are introduced at different times and their introductions are staggered through the song,they don't come in all at once.I like it how he talks about being a kid and then uses the phrase "dolly mixtures", as in the sweets,to describe how he's now messed up.
The world is a small child in the dark is a reference to the fact that the world as a whole is afraid of things that aren't even there.Like what are produced from big scare stories in the media.Just as a child can't see what's in the dark so it becomes scared.Could also be about the future,people worrying about their lives.
He says about looking at the sky and taking the black from the white.When you look at the sky everything just seems so simple and you realise how complicated we make life for ourselves.
Then he talks about time,older people look back and treasure time,he didn't then,but now looking back thinks that what they said was true.As time moves quickly and is as distant as a satalite.
This song is brilliant,I love how all the instruments are introduced at different times and their introductions are staggered through the song,they don't come in all at once.I like it how he talks about being a kid and then uses the phrase "dolly mixtures", as in the sweets,to describe how he's now messed up. The world is a small child in the dark is a reference to the fact that the world as a whole is afraid of things that aren't even there.Like what are produced from big scare stories in the media.Just as a child can't see what's in the dark so it becomes scared.Could also be about the future,people worrying about their lives. He says about looking at the sky and taking the black from the white.When you look at the sky everything just seems so simple and you realise how complicated we make life for ourselves. Then he talks about time,older people look back and treasure time,he didn't then,but now looking back thinks that what they said was true.As time moves quickly and is as distant as a satalite.