this song to me reminds me about my grandfather. he always used to say, "you're never happy or unhappy, you just have happiness or unhappiness in you," I think in the city it's easier to lose track of that. you feel that you can relate so much to your unhappiness that you are unhappy, that unhappiness is you, the way your name or address or phone number is. but unhappiness can be dropped. it can be changed by being present in the now.
the girl in this song was holding the narrator back from experiencing the now. she had her "castles" (wishes) in the "air" (future/heaven/afterlife/long-haul) and he couldn't hold out any longer knowing that the simple pleasures of existing were available to him in the here and now.
this song to me reminds me about my grandfather. he always used to say, "you're never happy or unhappy, you just have happiness or unhappiness in you," I think in the city it's easier to lose track of that. you feel that you can relate so much to your unhappiness that you are unhappy, that unhappiness is you, the way your name or address or phone number is. but unhappiness can be dropped. it can be changed by being present in the now.
the girl in this song was holding the narrator back from experiencing the now. she had her "castles" (wishes) in the "air" (future/heaven/afterlife/long-haul) and he couldn't hold out any longer knowing that the simple pleasures of existing were available to him in the here and now.