Icarus deffinatly did use wax wings, thrice did a song about that....
anyways this song is sort of about wasted talent, more its about how someone is tired of waiting for someone to either grow up or move on. ("theres a train leaving town in an hour its not waiting for you and neither am i") Probibly after they tried to do something great but failed, and did nothing after that. ("ive watched you fly on paper wings halfway around the world until they burned up in the atmosphere") and then ("'swing for the fences son' they must have told you once that was a conversation you took nothing from") ppl told him he could do great things again after he failed but he still chose nothing... and ("youve just put off another year of knowing where your from you can catch up with yourself if you run....") the person who failed is lost and the person talking to him is telling him to go out on his own again and he might find himself again... and again remember he is not waitng for him and neither is the train... and then the last few questions is what he wants him to do ("will you take the road thats been laid out before you?") basically is he going to finnaly go out and take up all the opportunities he has in front of him or go back and be nothing again...so basically this is a story about who i beleive is the artist and his father the artist is the lost person who failed at something great and his father is telling him to move on and make soemthing of himself
Icarus deffinatly did use wax wings, thrice did a song about that....
anyways this song is sort of about wasted talent, more its about how someone is tired of waiting for someone to either grow up or move on. ("theres a train leaving town in an hour its not waiting for you and neither am i") Probibly after they tried to do something great but failed, and did nothing after that. ("ive watched you fly on paper wings halfway around the world until they burned up in the atmosphere") and then ("'swing for the fences son' they must have told you once that was a conversation you took nothing from") ppl told him he could do great things again after he failed but he still chose nothing... and ("youve just put off another year of knowing where your from you can catch up with yourself if you run....") the person who failed is lost and the person talking to him is telling him to go out on his own again and he might find himself again... and again remember he is not waitng for him and neither is the train... and then the last few questions is what he wants him to do ("will you take the road thats been laid out before you?") basically is he going to finnaly go out and take up all the opportunities he has in front of him or go back and be nothing again...so basically this is a story about who i beleive is the artist and his father the artist is the lost person who failed at something great and his father is telling him to move on and make soemthing of himself