It seems to be about how their childhood dreams, and plans for their relationship's future, seem so distant now that they are grown up, and have "withered into truth." I think the song also implies that they are growing into their parents, "building your house on the very street/that severed your mother's life from your father's land," "finish your home, we can join them this way...marriage and love and divorce, we don't understand."
It seems to be about how their childhood dreams, and plans for their relationship's future, seem so distant now that they are grown up, and have "withered into truth." I think the song also implies that they are growing into their parents, "building your house on the very street/that severed your mother's life from your father's land," "finish your home, we can join them this way...marriage and love and divorce, we don't understand."