These lyrics should be updated to what e8ghtmileshigh put down, they sound much better, and liner notes are pretty authoritative. I like the link from SeHablaBlahBlah, it brings about something of a new way to perceive the song. In fact it kind of brings about the distinct possibility that it's praising the following of desires instead of being stuck in an endless cycle of "reaching for the gold."
For what if "when you were young, and your excitement showed..." is a good thing. But what if this excitement and matter of course that we followed with reckless abandon was abandoned (like say abandoning the use of a desire line (desire path)) even though it is the best (quickest) path. Then when you grow up, or "as time goes by," you stop following that path, or posed as a question: "is it outgrown?"
"Is that the way things go?" Is it really the best thing we can think of as adults to give away our passion and excitement to reach for that promotion, to be "forever reaching for the gold?" An entire life wasting away not for our passions but for our social existence, until we come to the end of our life when "forever fades black," and it ends up we have nothing to show for it, or it all "comes up cold."
The chorus is our way to escape this, to be "walking free", not on the carefully planned and paved pathways of our society, but on the desire lines of our instinct, those paths we carve naturally which are always so much more efficient and useful. To "walk with me," or follow the people who carve out these desire lines, "far away" from these fake societies we build, and not just on the weekends in between work, but "everyday."
Why do we abandon this in the first place? Maybe because "when [we] were young, [we] never knew which way
[we'd] go." We began relying on others to show us the way, we needed their kindness to show us what to do with our lives. And now "what once was grace now undertows." It used to be a help, now their direction just drags us down away from what we truly feel called to do, what we truly desire.
So what should we take from this? "'Well everyday do what you can, and if you let them
turn you 'round - whatever goes up must come down'" Their markets will crash, their societies will crumble, their cities will fall, and their people will revolt. It may come up and be a glorious empire, but it will surely come down.
Granted on account of the minimalistic nature of the lyrics anyone could probably argue the exact opposite of this proposal, I don't see a problem with that, no one can help but read their own ideas into lyrics.
These lyrics should be updated to what e8ghtmileshigh put down, they sound much better, and liner notes are pretty authoritative. I like the link from SeHablaBlahBlah, it brings about something of a new way to perceive the song. In fact it kind of brings about the distinct possibility that it's praising the following of desires instead of being stuck in an endless cycle of "reaching for the gold."
For what if "when you were young, and your excitement showed..." is a good thing. But what if this excitement and matter of course that we followed with reckless abandon was abandoned (like say abandoning the use of a desire line (desire path)) even though it is the best (quickest) path. Then when you grow up, or "as time goes by," you stop following that path, or posed as a question: "is it outgrown?"
"Is that the way things go?" Is it really the best thing we can think of as adults to give away our passion and excitement to reach for that promotion, to be "forever reaching for the gold?" An entire life wasting away not for our passions but for our social existence, until we come to the end of our life when "forever fades black," and it ends up we have nothing to show for it, or it all "comes up cold."
The chorus is our way to escape this, to be "walking free", not on the carefully planned and paved pathways of our society, but on the desire lines of our instinct, those paths we carve naturally which are always so much more efficient and useful. To "walk with me," or follow the people who carve out these desire lines, "far away" from these fake societies we build, and not just on the weekends in between work, but "everyday."
Why do we abandon this in the first place? Maybe because "when [we] were young, [we] never knew which way [we'd] go." We began relying on others to show us the way, we needed their kindness to show us what to do with our lives. And now "what once was grace now undertows." It used to be a help, now their direction just drags us down away from what we truly feel called to do, what we truly desire.
So what should we take from this? "'Well everyday do what you can, and if you let them turn you 'round - whatever goes up must come down'" Their markets will crash, their societies will crumble, their cities will fall, and their people will revolt. It may come up and be a glorious empire, but it will surely come down.
Granted on account of the minimalistic nature of the lyrics anyone could probably argue the exact opposite of this proposal, I don't see a problem with that, no one can help but read their own ideas into lyrics.
LOL....NEVER EVER EVER AGAIN accuse me of talking too much :)
LOL....NEVER EVER EVER AGAIN accuse me of talking too much :)