To me, the song is about losing track of your goals and being stuck in a rut. He feels as if he's floating down a river with no control over where he's going. The sky is his idea of the future he is working towards, what he hoped to make of his life. It gets filled up too fast because he feels everyone around him is already off on their journey. The clouds that stop and move are people he sees that have achieved the life they were looking for. But they can't help him reach his own aspirations. The horizon line is his future; where the ground of the present meets the sky of his aspirations.
The "old glasses clinking, and a new order is blinking" line makes me think he is a bartender or a waiter, stuck in a job or city he never intended to stay in. He should be floating in the sky, living out his dreams, but he's weighted down by confusion over a life thats sending him down a path that doesn't change.
Of course, a song as well written as this is up for many interpretations, it's all based on individual experiences; and this interpretation comes from a college junior who needs to get back to writing a rhetorical theory paper.
To me, the song is about losing track of your goals and being stuck in a rut. He feels as if he's floating down a river with no control over where he's going. The sky is his idea of the future he is working towards, what he hoped to make of his life. It gets filled up too fast because he feels everyone around him is already off on their journey. The clouds that stop and move are people he sees that have achieved the life they were looking for. But they can't help him reach his own aspirations. The horizon line is his future; where the ground of the present meets the sky of his aspirations.
The "old glasses clinking, and a new order is blinking" line makes me think he is a bartender or a waiter, stuck in a job or city he never intended to stay in. He should be floating in the sky, living out his dreams, but he's weighted down by confusion over a life thats sending him down a path that doesn't change.
Of course, a song as well written as this is up for many interpretations, it's all based on individual experiences; and this interpretation comes from a college junior who needs to get back to writing a rhetorical theory paper.