I agree with Digi-G, especially since the entire To Our Childrens Childrens Children album was inspired by the Apollo landing on the moon in 1969. HOWEVER I also believe many of the songs, including this one, have double meaning. This was, after all, the heyday of the counterculture and the Moodies were actually considered a very experimental and psychedelic group back then!! (I remember, I was there.) The Moodies were in the same league as the early Pink Floyd for us old-fart hippies. There is little question that they experimented with hallucinogens (after all, Mike Pinder wrote two songs about Timothy Leary!). So "floating free as a bird" and most of the other lyrics can also refer to getting stoned.
I agree with Digi-G, especially since the entire To Our Childrens Childrens Children album was inspired by the Apollo landing on the moon in 1969. HOWEVER I also believe many of the songs, including this one, have double meaning. This was, after all, the heyday of the counterculture and the Moodies were actually considered a very experimental and psychedelic group back then!! (I remember, I was there.) The Moodies were in the same league as the early Pink Floyd for us old-fart hippies. There is little question that they experimented with hallucinogens (after all, Mike Pinder wrote two songs about Timothy Leary!). So "floating free as a bird" and most of the other lyrics can also refer to getting stoned.