I think this song is pretty simple. It's all about how people view problems with society. People usually only see two sides without the possibility of a grey area.
The Toy Store is a metaphor for all the choices we have in life.
What trips me up is the man walking down the aisle. Perhaps a store clerk being used as a metaphor for God? The clerk would help someone in making a decision at a store like God might guides a person's decisions in life.
I'm not sure about the man but I am confident about the toy store and mom metaphors.
Mom is a metaphor of society, telling you to make one choice or another
Yes, the song is very simple. I do agree when you said the store clerk is a metaphor for God, which is exactly when I was interpreting this song. My reason for saying this is because I'm the kind of person that finds most all choices in life appealing. In today's society, there are so many "avenues" in which you can guide your life down. But who really knows which one is better than the other? As a kid, you want to be able to have all of them at one time (just a child's nature). As you grow up,...
Yes, the song is very simple. I do agree when you said the store clerk is a metaphor for God, which is exactly when I was interpreting this song. My reason for saying this is because I'm the kind of person that finds most all choices in life appealing. In today's society, there are so many "avenues" in which you can guide your life down. But who really knows which one is better than the other? As a kid, you want to be able to have all of them at one time (just a child's nature). As you grow up, you will always have those to help influence your life in a particular way, but the "mother" figure, or that person who would normally help guide you in life, would advise you to go a certain way and to stick with it until tomorrow (which would bring something new) or until the next opportunity for you to buy somehting at the toy store. In summary, HUGE SYMBOLISM in the context of toys(possessions, relationships, choices, etc) and aisles (avenues of life to discover, etc.) and the store clerk (the store clerk who knows whats best if you choose that "toy"). ROCK ON OAR FANS
I think this song is pretty simple. It's all about how people view problems with society. People usually only see two sides without the possibility of a grey area.
The Toy Store is a metaphor for all the choices we have in life.
What trips me up is the man walking down the aisle. Perhaps a store clerk being used as a metaphor for God? The clerk would help someone in making a decision at a store like God might guides a person's decisions in life.
I'm not sure about the man but I am confident about the toy store and mom metaphors.
Mom is a metaphor of society, telling you to make one choice or another
Yes, the song is very simple. I do agree when you said the store clerk is a metaphor for God, which is exactly when I was interpreting this song. My reason for saying this is because I'm the kind of person that finds most all choices in life appealing. In today's society, there are so many "avenues" in which you can guide your life down. But who really knows which one is better than the other? As a kid, you want to be able to have all of them at one time (just a child's nature). As you grow up,...
Yes, the song is very simple. I do agree when you said the store clerk is a metaphor for God, which is exactly when I was interpreting this song. My reason for saying this is because I'm the kind of person that finds most all choices in life appealing. In today's society, there are so many "avenues" in which you can guide your life down. But who really knows which one is better than the other? As a kid, you want to be able to have all of them at one time (just a child's nature). As you grow up, you will always have those to help influence your life in a particular way, but the "mother" figure, or that person who would normally help guide you in life, would advise you to go a certain way and to stick with it until tomorrow (which would bring something new) or until the next opportunity for you to buy somehting at the toy store. In summary, HUGE SYMBOLISM in the context of toys(possessions, relationships, choices, etc) and aisles (avenues of life to discover, etc.) and the store clerk (the store clerk who knows whats best if you choose that "toy"). ROCK ON OAR FANS