It doesn't seem like hes singing about childhood or growing up i recon hes signing about coming from a developed country to a "developing" country shows that science has given us too much to think about.
When he says there were so many fewer questions he means that noone really cared what was up there when noone knew what was up there. Hes signing about generations ago and how his experience in that counrty bought him closer to those times.
I thought the same thing when i heard the song. I didn't think it was so much about growing up as it was about the acquisition of knowledge in general... Centuries ago, when the masses still believed that stars had some heavenly connection, there was much less to worry about. He's wondering if where we are now is truly "better" than back then, all things considered.
That could be interpreted as wishing you were young again, but i think it has a wider meaning than that.
I thought the same thing when i heard the song. I didn't think it was so much about growing up as it was about the acquisition of knowledge in general... Centuries ago, when the masses still believed that stars had some heavenly connection, there was much less to worry about. He's wondering if where we are now is truly "better" than back then, all things considered.
That could be interpreted as wishing you were young again, but i think it has a wider meaning than that.
It doesn't seem like hes singing about childhood or growing up i recon hes signing about coming from a developed country to a "developing" country shows that science has given us too much to think about.
When he says there were so many fewer questions he means that noone really cared what was up there when noone knew what was up there. Hes signing about generations ago and how his experience in that counrty bought him closer to those times.
I thought the same thing when i heard the song. I didn't think it was so much about growing up as it was about the acquisition of knowledge in general... Centuries ago, when the masses still believed that stars had some heavenly connection, there was much less to worry about. He's wondering if where we are now is truly "better" than back then, all things considered. That could be interpreted as wishing you were young again, but i think it has a wider meaning than that.
I thought the same thing when i heard the song. I didn't think it was so much about growing up as it was about the acquisition of knowledge in general... Centuries ago, when the masses still believed that stars had some heavenly connection, there was much less to worry about. He's wondering if where we are now is truly "better" than back then, all things considered. That could be interpreted as wishing you were young again, but i think it has a wider meaning than that.