It's a motivational song. The theme is summed up in the first verse. Our thoughts are always stuck in two places. Half dwells on the past and how it defines us, yet the time we spend doing this is time not spent defining ourselves right now. The other half imagines the future we want, but gets tangled up and overwhelmed by the millions of paths that might lead there and the millions of obstacles we might face on the way. We ignore the present, and it continually passes us by... faster and faster.
They're telling us that, knowing how difficult it is, we must focus on the present. We don't have to forget the past or stop building a future, but we can't bind ourselves to them. The best we can do is make a solid choice to be who we want to be right now, before the time we have to do so runs out.
It's a motivational song. The theme is summed up in the first verse. Our thoughts are always stuck in two places. Half dwells on the past and how it defines us, yet the time we spend doing this is time not spent defining ourselves right now. The other half imagines the future we want, but gets tangled up and overwhelmed by the millions of paths that might lead there and the millions of obstacles we might face on the way. We ignore the present, and it continually passes us by... faster and faster.
They're telling us that, knowing how difficult it is, we must focus on the present. We don't have to forget the past or stop building a future, but we can't bind ourselves to them. The best we can do is make a solid choice to be who we want to be right now, before the time we have to do so runs out.
And yes, writing out my interpretation here is very much myself in the process of kicking my own ass.
And yes, writing out my interpretation here is very much myself in the process of kicking my own ass.