I really like the way she keeps coming back to the line about the ship sliding open. You really feel the son's sadness, like the song is him talking and crying to himself, obsessed with this idea of being reunited with his dad, and he's just repeating the same things over and over to himself the way people do when they're crying. Well that was an unnecessarily long sentence.
Note that I don't mean to disagree with GarryNovikoff's post about the song being about "A Book of Dreams". I've never heard of this book, but anything that so closely aligns with the lyrics is almost certainly the inspiration for the song. But of course, songs can have multiple meanings.
I really like the way she keeps coming back to the line about the ship sliding open. You really feel the son's sadness, like the song is him talking and crying to himself, obsessed with this idea of being reunited with his dad, and he's just repeating the same things over and over to himself the way people do when they're crying. Well that was an unnecessarily long sentence.
Note that I don't mean to disagree with GarryNovikoff's post about the song being about "A Book of Dreams". I've never heard of this book, but anything that so closely aligns with the lyrics is almost certainly the inspiration for the song. But of course, songs can have multiple meanings.