If you work in 'corporate america,' this song makes perfect sense. I remember the first time I heard it, it depressed me for a week. Here is my meaning:
When they are young, everyone has dreams about what they want to be when they grow up - I want to be a fireman or I want to be rich or work for myself or be in a band etc. When you get out of school or whatever and you get health insurance and a wife and a car payment and a mortgage and a kid, you probably find yourself doing a job that you don't like or didn't intend which is where the subject of the song is (not recalling the plan...). And once you experience Mondays, rush hour traffic, and the rest of the coat and tie world, you can really feel what the song is saying - Time is huge. He is lamenting about not having any time; time to dream or hike the grand canyon or own his own business or live his dream. So he says goodbye to his real self that he sees in his dream and goes back to sleep in his 'clip on world'. The last line 'Another man moved by slight of hand'. - it happens to just about everyone and you know its comming you saw it with your parents. My advice is chase your dream. As they say - 'If you do what you love, you will never work a day in your life,'
If you work in 'corporate america,' this song makes perfect sense. I remember the first time I heard it, it depressed me for a week. Here is my meaning:
When they are young, everyone has dreams about what they want to be when they grow up - I want to be a fireman or I want to be rich or work for myself or be in a band etc. When you get out of school or whatever and you get health insurance and a wife and a car payment and a mortgage and a kid, you probably find yourself doing a job that you don't like or didn't intend which is where the subject of the song is (not recalling the plan...). And once you experience Mondays, rush hour traffic, and the rest of the coat and tie world, you can really feel what the song is saying - Time is huge. He is lamenting about not having any time; time to dream or hike the grand canyon or own his own business or live his dream. So he says goodbye to his real self that he sees in his dream and goes back to sleep in his 'clip on world'. The last line 'Another man moved by slight of hand'. - it happens to just about everyone and you know its comming you saw it with your parents. My advice is chase your dream. As they say - 'If you do what you love, you will never work a day in your life,'