I'm pretty sure the song is about the universal struggle for happiness/acceptance and some people are content to play roles, ridicule others for little gaffes, and generally force each other into a developmental paralysis in which the only actions that can be made have to be planned and calculated and tested. Cf. "There's a crowd talking loud but they ain't saying nothing/slow and stale weak and pale while we're running and laughing" And they always need to justify their lives so they always act like they know what they're doing cf. "you don't know where to go still you point out directions" so they as a result kind of have to be few and far between.
But The Tough Alliance is more about action, making a move in a direction, not necessarily pretending they know what they're doing, because they know that quantity is more important than quality and leads to it anyway. And when they do this they experience "something else something bright and pure/something that you've never felt before/something you can't touch something you can't see you just don't believe"
I'm pretty sure the song is about the universal struggle for happiness/acceptance and some people are content to play roles, ridicule others for little gaffes, and generally force each other into a developmental paralysis in which the only actions that can be made have to be planned and calculated and tested. Cf. "There's a crowd talking loud but they ain't saying nothing/slow and stale weak and pale while we're running and laughing" And they always need to justify their lives so they always act like they know what they're doing cf. "you don't know where to go still you point out directions" so they as a result kind of have to be few and far between.
But The Tough Alliance is more about action, making a move in a direction, not necessarily pretending they know what they're doing, because they know that quantity is more important than quality and leads to it anyway. And when they do this they experience "something else something bright and pure/something that you've never felt before/something you can't touch something you can't see you just don't believe"
"so they as a result kind of have to be few and far between."
"so they as a result kind of have to be few and far between."
By they I meant their actions.
By they I meant their actions.