I'm getting lots of images with this song. I'd associate it with some tragic event; drowning or maybe a car crash, where there is a 'flashback' of a child version of the person, playing the banjo [simplicity, innocence, discovering things?] sitting against a big stone wall [you all know the wall metaphor], the boy draws hearts/happy faces/people/things in red paint on the walls, but where it starts up he just turns them into straight lines and him banging against the wall, chipping away at it. There's a couple high points on the song where you'd think it'd be a climax but it just stops, I think those parts would be the wall falling on him and him coming out an older version of himself each time. Images of rebuilding the walls. Perhaps as a child he first built them with mega blocks. I can imagine him at the end either one big collapse of the wall or his walls filling with water and drowning him, banging on the walls, screaming but no one can hear. Picture that...
I'm getting lots of images with this song. I'd associate it with some tragic event; drowning or maybe a car crash, where there is a 'flashback' of a child version of the person, playing the banjo [simplicity, innocence, discovering things?] sitting against a big stone wall [you all know the wall metaphor], the boy draws hearts/happy faces/people/things in red paint on the walls, but where it starts up he just turns them into straight lines and him banging against the wall, chipping away at it. There's a couple high points on the song where you'd think it'd be a climax but it just stops, I think those parts would be the wall falling on him and him coming out an older version of himself each time. Images of rebuilding the walls. Perhaps as a child he first built them with mega blocks. I can imagine him at the end either one big collapse of the wall or his walls filling with water and drowning him, banging on the walls, screaming but no one can hear. Picture that...