Colors of the Sun Lyrics

Lyric discussion by pompous pig 

Cover art for Colors of the Sun lyrics by Jackson Browne

"...Asking all the people passing by Doesn't anybody want the way"

makes me think of some religious fanatic on the street in New York City shouting verses, as business people pass briskly buy, not listening...

...as they "scuffle with the crowd to get their share, and fall behind their little bits of time."

"I say goodbye to Joseph and Maria," intrigues me. Joseph is a Biblical name, and Maria, latin / spanish for Mary...

seems to be about an individual who neither wants to be a part of that material world, nor do they want to hide in an orthodox religion, so they are left only to explore and search on their own for some meaning.