Skating Away (On the Thin Ice of a New Day) Lyrics

Lyric discussion by Outernationalist 

Cover art for Skating Away (On the Thin Ice of a New Day) lyrics by Jethro Tull

sirdon is spot on.

This song is about shallowness in society, about forgetting the basic things about life and getting lost in society. People forget who they really want to be, they get caught in meaningless jobs and triviality. "a million generations removed from expectations..."

This song, to me, is about realizing that life's really a fragile thing... and that we must seize the day, instead of "being the only person sitting in the audience", and make the most out of each day... striving to be who we really want to be.