This is such a beautiful song. The persona is singing of a desire not to conform, not to work and just to be in a place where "nothing must be done." He hears far off sounds of others doing work, all those things they feel give life some meaning. He is torn to have to rejoin the real world.
He uses the metaphor comparing himself to the trees shaken by the winds. He can't loose the leaves or his feelings of having to conform.
He doesn't want to be addicted to a perfumed poison which is work which gives nothing in return. He does not want to lose the wonder of life. He warns of the fisherman who's casting out his line into a dried up river bed which is fruitless work.
This is such a beautiful song. The persona is singing of a desire not to conform, not to work and just to be in a place where "nothing must be done." He hears far off sounds of others doing work, all those things they feel give life some meaning. He is torn to have to rejoin the real world.
He uses the metaphor comparing himself to the trees shaken by the winds. He can't loose the leaves or his feelings of having to conform.
He doesn't want to be addicted to a perfumed poison which is work which gives nothing in return. He does not want to lose the wonder of life. He warns of the fisherman who's casting out his line into a dried up river bed which is fruitless work.
With these feelings, he feels so alienated.
Beautiful