Whats fascinating is that this is the first one on the album.
Yeah, I can relate to it. My word can I relate. It's about you, the world, and how genuine everything was when you were a child.
And now here I am, finding meaning in a song in a little-known website, yearning for that feeling, the days when my mind didn't rule school. Right and wrong was just instilled and you understood.
You didn't have to make the rules for yourself. To teach yourself to be better, you were just good. As you try to be decent and serve those you respect and trust, they grow apart, most people you went to school with gone.
Basically this song is for all the genuine people at heart, those who didnt grow up with a 'view' who didnt judge. But found themselves having to carefully reconstruct how the estrangement began. The big world full of refugees, they once shared a classroom, but now have this not so great freedom, just like everyone else, whats really important is to belong, and never give up on people.
But the hopeless fight goes on, to communicate, to understand, why were we turned against each other? The only thing that lasts is orbit, where do we go from here?
I tried! But rambled sadly.
I know why some think its about childhood, and your explanation is creative but I dont think it explains a lot of the lines and the fact is the line "it was said in a different life" sort of hints at something further back in time than the authors own experience backed up by the line "the gap that grows between our lives the gap our parents never had" my explanation of it being about fascism and racism with a smidgin of class strugle thrown in makes more sense on a line by line basis, or it may be...
I know why some think its about childhood, and your explanation is creative but I dont think it explains a lot of the lines and the fact is the line "it was said in a different life" sort of hints at something further back in time than the authors own experience backed up by the line "the gap that grows between our lives the gap our parents never had" my explanation of it being about fascism and racism with a smidgin of class strugle thrown in makes more sense on a line by line basis, or it may be wholly about class strugle as someone else suggested.
Whats fascinating is that this is the first one on the album.
Yeah, I can relate to it. My word can I relate. It's about you, the world, and how genuine everything was when you were a child.
And now here I am, finding meaning in a song in a little-known website, yearning for that feeling, the days when my mind didn't rule school. Right and wrong was just instilled and you understood.
You didn't have to make the rules for yourself. To teach yourself to be better, you were just good. As you try to be decent and serve those you respect and trust, they grow apart, most people you went to school with gone.
Basically this song is for all the genuine people at heart, those who didnt grow up with a 'view' who didnt judge. But found themselves having to carefully reconstruct how the estrangement began. The big world full of refugees, they once shared a classroom, but now have this not so great freedom, just like everyone else, whats really important is to belong, and never give up on people.
But the hopeless fight goes on, to communicate, to understand, why were we turned against each other? The only thing that lasts is orbit, where do we go from here? I tried! But rambled sadly.
I know why some think its about childhood, and your explanation is creative but I dont think it explains a lot of the lines and the fact is the line "it was said in a different life" sort of hints at something further back in time than the authors own experience backed up by the line "the gap that grows between our lives the gap our parents never had" my explanation of it being about fascism and racism with a smidgin of class strugle thrown in makes more sense on a line by line basis, or it may be...
I know why some think its about childhood, and your explanation is creative but I dont think it explains a lot of the lines and the fact is the line "it was said in a different life" sort of hints at something further back in time than the authors own experience backed up by the line "the gap that grows between our lives the gap our parents never had" my explanation of it being about fascism and racism with a smidgin of class strugle thrown in makes more sense on a line by line basis, or it may be wholly about class strugle as someone else suggested.