Seems pretty straight-up to me. There holds a mystery in a bird's flight to the layman. Somewhere between the means and the bird, there is some sense of child-like wonder and magic as what's going on mechanically. The lyrics depict a loss - death maybe? love? some aspect of self? Who knows. The loss is questioned in the first chorus where the lyrics skirt around the true lament (I don't know how the dove could exist without the wind) which is pretty much "I don't know what do do". Perhaps the lyrics were to come to some sort of peace (dove being the bird, and as other flights are examined from this album), I think the lyrics is the struggle of how to move on past losing something that may or may not be able to even be conceived, all that potential and hope, but also a demand to understand it, as the child lingers at the window trying to make sense of what has happened. Could be completely off my rocker though! Just how I interpret it. : )
Seems pretty straight-up to me. There holds a mystery in a bird's flight to the layman. Somewhere between the means and the bird, there is some sense of child-like wonder and magic as what's going on mechanically. The lyrics depict a loss - death maybe? love? some aspect of self? Who knows. The loss is questioned in the first chorus where the lyrics skirt around the true lament (I don't know how the dove could exist without the wind) which is pretty much "I don't know what do do". Perhaps the lyrics were to come to some sort of peace (dove being the bird, and as other flights are examined from this album), I think the lyrics is the struggle of how to move on past losing something that may or may not be able to even be conceived, all that potential and hope, but also a demand to understand it, as the child lingers at the window trying to make sense of what has happened. Could be completely off my rocker though! Just how I interpret it. : )