A Rock 'N' Roll Fantasy Lyrics

Lyric discussion by webmasterdee 

Cover art for A Rock 'N' Roll Fantasy lyrics by Kinks, The

I think it's about the band about to break up, but before they do they should consider the consequences for their fans. In the end they decide that if they indeed need to break up they need to inevitably do so otherwise they would be just like their fans listening to their music, living a fantasy.

@webmasterdee What Ray calls “Fantasy” is really just a person’s “Coping mechanism”, the subject of the song, be it Dave or Ray himself, disparages what he does for a living because he feels he’s just a case of “arrested development”, and that if he’d just put down playing this ‘childish’ rock n roll he’d be able to “move forward” with his life...

But as JohnLennon said, “Life” is what happens to you while you’re busy making OTHER plans. The singer of AR&RF seems to understand, better than the person he’s singing TO, this concept, and that...