This song is not entirely about setting your goals high, it definitely seems like that on the surface but I think this song is written from a view of "disenchantment with how we view ourselves and forget who we really are as well as disenchanment with celebrity and riches".
its ironic in that the message to "set your goals high" is there but there is also a "be realistic about your goals and don't live your life wishing for the impossible and forget your true self because YOU WILL be disappointed" - which is the case with many of us today....wanting to live like celebrities and wishing for eternal wealth..etc
"Is this what you meant?
Is this what you dreamed of?
When you were making your plans,
Shaking the dirt off?
Do you feel like you and I belong?
(oh ah oh)
Just keep your eyes on the road and nothing can go wrong"
A relationship obviously is going wrong. the other party had hoped for the best relationship ever and now that reality hit the fan, the cant face it but still live like everything is okay.
"I've been checking my sums
Oh where did the time go?
Holding my photograph up to the window
Through the paper and refracted sun
(oh ah oh)
I can see all the things I wish that I'd done"
again...time has gone by and the person comes to realise that they have lived a lie all along and didn't really do the good things they wanted to do.
"You can hang your hopes on the medicine
You can put your faith in the phone-in
You can tell yourself you doing your best
You can do so much better than this"
reference to how we always turn to things like medicine and phone ins (possibly some money winning TV phone in stuff ??? ) to sort our problems out instead of sorting them out our problems and being realistic about it!
"Get a grip on yourself
Get a grip on yourself
Could have been something, but you're too late
And you weren't invited anyway
'Cause the photographs show the wrong man
'Cause there is no soap star holding your hand
You don't see yourself in the freeze frame
Must be someone else using your name"
wished for a life in the lights and now alas, life has passed by and there hasnt been that BIG break yet.....there never was going to be one right from the word go!
"And everyone will be the same
And everyone will glow
And everywhere, you'll see your name
In every shop window
It's better than this
You can do so much better than this"
last verse I interpret it as "if everyone wanted to be celebrity, rich and famous...then everyone would be the same, everyone would glow, rich and famous" but because of variety how we are all unique in our own good and equally special ways, life is better than what we see on telly, in the magazines etc!
This song is not entirely about setting your goals high, it definitely seems like that on the surface but I think this song is written from a view of "disenchantment with how we view ourselves and forget who we really are as well as disenchanment with celebrity and riches". its ironic in that the message to "set your goals high" is there but there is also a "be realistic about your goals and don't live your life wishing for the impossible and forget your true self because YOU WILL be disappointed" - which is the case with many of us today....wanting to live like celebrities and wishing for eternal wealth..etc
"Is this what you meant? Is this what you dreamed of? When you were making your plans, Shaking the dirt off? Do you feel like you and I belong? (oh ah oh) Just keep your eyes on the road and nothing can go wrong"
A relationship obviously is going wrong. the other party had hoped for the best relationship ever and now that reality hit the fan, the cant face it but still live like everything is okay.
"I've been checking my sums Oh where did the time go? Holding my photograph up to the window Through the paper and refracted sun (oh ah oh) I can see all the things I wish that I'd done"
again...time has gone by and the person comes to realise that they have lived a lie all along and didn't really do the good things they wanted to do.
"You can hang your hopes on the medicine You can put your faith in the phone-in You can tell yourself you doing your best You can do so much better than this"
reference to how we always turn to things like medicine and phone ins (possibly some money winning TV phone in stuff ??? ) to sort our problems out instead of sorting them out our problems and being realistic about it!
"Get a grip on yourself Get a grip on yourself Could have been something, but you're too late And you weren't invited anyway
'Cause the photographs show the wrong man 'Cause there is no soap star holding your hand You don't see yourself in the freeze frame Must be someone else using your name"
wished for a life in the lights and now alas, life has passed by and there hasnt been that BIG break yet.....there never was going to be one right from the word go!
"And everyone will be the same And everyone will glow And everywhere, you'll see your name In every shop window
It's better than this You can do so much better than this"
last verse I interpret it as "if everyone wanted to be celebrity, rich and famous...then everyone would be the same, everyone would glow, rich and famous" but because of variety how we are all unique in our own good and equally special ways, life is better than what we see on telly, in the magazines etc!
So lets have better hopes and aspirations!
(thats my interpretation!)