It seems definitely to be a child-like view of his childhood, but then moves on to more complex ideas like - 'you can never really see the top from the bottom'. So possibly there is an underlying transition shown through the lyrics.
I think if this is infact a true biography that it emphasises his creative nature... 'the noises that the trains made sounded like people in my head' and 'the stories that the ceiling told Through the pictures and the grains in the pine-wood boards'
There's a very clever use of lyrics, rather than words that just fit the music, these lryics really tell a story, the story of his childhood.
It seems definitely to be a child-like view of his childhood, but then moves on to more complex ideas like - 'you can never really see the top from the bottom'. So possibly there is an underlying transition shown through the lyrics.
I think if this is infact a true biography that it emphasises his creative nature... 'the noises that the trains made sounded like people in my head' and 'the stories that the ceiling told Through the pictures and the grains in the pine-wood boards'
There's a very clever use of lyrics, rather than words that just fit the music, these lryics really tell a story, the story of his childhood.