I've always seen this song as being about a broken relationship, and the narrator is asking for forgiveness... the imagery that she's at her lover's back door begging to be let in, and the "castles and blazing speed-of-light machines" are references to all in her life that's fallen apart due to change, including the relationship.
I've always seen this song as being about a broken relationship, and the narrator is asking for forgiveness... the imagery that she's at her lover's back door begging to be let in, and the "castles and blazing speed-of-light machines" are references to all in her life that's fallen apart due to change, including the relationship.
I always thought of it the same way. The narrator seems to have gone a way for a while, but comes back for forgiveness.
I always thought of it the same way. The narrator seems to have gone a way for a while, but comes back for forgiveness.