To start, this album is decidedly under-appreciated and needs more comments in general.
More specifically, this is definitely the culminating point of this album. It's basically a continuation of "In the Attic," the first song of the album. Whereas the narrator is searching for something in the first song (but only the ghosts know it, and the narrator's heard it but can't remember), this song shows him finding what he's looking for and has been looking for in basically every other song in the album.
The lyrics in this song are pretty trippy. The image of the stairs and the doors and such throws out any possibility of literal meaning. Instead, I think we're seeing a moment of insight and clarity, almost a religious moment where the narrator suddenly step out of himself and away from the general self-centered attitude people inevitably have to see himself in relation to everything. He finds himself up on the roof again staring at the stars, and he realizes how small and insignificant he is after searching for his place the entire album
To start, this album is decidedly under-appreciated and needs more comments in general.
More specifically, this is definitely the culminating point of this album. It's basically a continuation of "In the Attic," the first song of the album. Whereas the narrator is searching for something in the first song (but only the ghosts know it, and the narrator's heard it but can't remember), this song shows him finding what he's looking for and has been looking for in basically every other song in the album.
The lyrics in this song are pretty trippy. The image of the stairs and the doors and such throws out any possibility of literal meaning. Instead, I think we're seeing a moment of insight and clarity, almost a religious moment where the narrator suddenly step out of himself and away from the general self-centered attitude people inevitably have to see himself in relation to everything. He finds himself up on the roof again staring at the stars, and he realizes how small and insignificant he is after searching for his place the entire album