The first stanza is showing how when we're young we don't realize how fucked up the world really is. We're completely innocent and everything's great. Once we get older we see how messed up things are and we have to take responsibility for ourselves.
When he says he was "green" it means he is inexperienced. Things were much more optimistic when he was still a child I assume he is trying to say. Now that he is older he can't really find a place to belong.
I'm not sure what he's trying to say in that last stanza. I don't know if he means he is weak because he needs the person, or if he is saying he needs the person in his time of weakness. You can apply it however you want though.
Amazing damn song. Nick Drake is a genius with more talent with his guitar and with his voice than I could ever achieve in a lifetime of practice. I try though lol. Sometimes he reminds me of John Mayer, only not as poppy.
@Egghead15229 i believe the last stanza to be him longing for that initial.. naivitey ? that he had at an earlier stage in life. A place which was "greener" as apposed to the palest blue. This "need" to be back in that state, perhaps a time when he wasn't down. Just my opinion, but a sad take on it.
@Egghead15229 i believe the last stanza to be him longing for that initial.. naivitey ? that he had at an earlier stage in life. A place which was "greener" as apposed to the palest blue. This "need" to be back in that state, perhaps a time when he wasn't down. Just my opinion, but a sad take on it.
The first stanza is showing how when we're young we don't realize how fucked up the world really is. We're completely innocent and everything's great. Once we get older we see how messed up things are and we have to take responsibility for ourselves.
When he says he was "green" it means he is inexperienced. Things were much more optimistic when he was still a child I assume he is trying to say. Now that he is older he can't really find a place to belong.
I'm not sure what he's trying to say in that last stanza. I don't know if he means he is weak because he needs the person, or if he is saying he needs the person in his time of weakness. You can apply it however you want though.
Amazing damn song. Nick Drake is a genius with more talent with his guitar and with his voice than I could ever achieve in a lifetime of practice. I try though lol. Sometimes he reminds me of John Mayer, only not as poppy.
@Egghead15229 i believe the last stanza to be him longing for that initial.. naivitey ? that he had at an earlier stage in life. A place which was "greener" as apposed to the palest blue. This "need" to be back in that state, perhaps a time when he wasn't down. Just my opinion, but a sad take on it.
@Egghead15229 i believe the last stanza to be him longing for that initial.. naivitey ? that he had at an earlier stage in life. A place which was "greener" as apposed to the palest blue. This "need" to be back in that state, perhaps a time when he wasn't down. Just my opinion, but a sad take on it.