The Great Beyond

I always thought it was about writing good, original music, which if you look at the charts today you migth think is hard to do. My interpretation is hindered by the fact that I originally misheard the chorus as you will see in my quotes, but I put it in anyway.

I´ve watched the stars fall silent from your eyes

• the stars, meaning the great artists who stopped making music

There´s a new planet in the solar system

• a new kind of music?

There is nothing up my sleeve -he doesn't know what to write next, he feels he's running out of ideas

I´m pushing an elephant up the stairs

• achieving the impossible, or something very hard

I´m tossing up punchlines that were never there

• finding new lyrics of songs

Over my shoulder a piano falls Crashing to the ground

• symbolising the descent of good music

Talk is fine -but music is better

I´m breaking through

• obvious

I´m bending spoons

• again, achieving the seemingly impossible

I´m keeping flowers in full bloom

• keeping the band going for as long as they have

I´m looking for answers from the grave beyond

• looking for inspiration from the great songwriters of the past