"Queen Boadicea is long dead and gone.
Still now the spirit in her children's children's children lives on."
Queen Boadicea is a symbol of fighting for dreams, her dream was to save the Brits from the Roman Empire. Although she failed to win, she became a legend and that's why in the next generations her "spirit still lives on" - spirit to fight for our dreams.
"And if you've lost your faith in love and music oh the end wont be long.
Because if its come then I too may lose it and that would be wrong."
The word music can't be replaced here by things important to us like poetry, art etc. things that have a high impact on our lives - Pete used word "music" because he's a musician. Love, highest emotion, without that we are nothing.
"I've tried so hard to keep myself from falling back to my bad old ways"
This is a fight with our bad habits - Quenn Bodicea was fighting for freedom againts the Romans. We also have to fight for freedom, sometimes with ourselves.
"and it chars my heart to always hear you calling,
calling for the good old days,
'cos there were no good old days,
these are the good old days."
People always reminiscence the "good old days", but actually they weren't better then these that we live now. It's because "The good old days" in the future we create here and now.
"It's not about tenements and needles,
or all the evils in the eyes and the backs of their minds
Daisy chains and schoolyard games, and a list of things we said we'd do tomorrow, a list of things we said we'd do tomorrow."
Life isn't about our past, it's about our future. Here Pete brings us his personal memories - living in tenement, drugs, being surrounded by people that are "evil" - these are the most recent. The part from "Daisy chains..." it's the earliest life memories when we were little. But all that is not important. That's why he sang "List of things we'd do tomorrow" twice - to emphasise that we all had plans, but life turned out different than our dreams and that's why...
"The Arcadian dream, so fallen through
But the Albion sails on course"
Arcadia refers to place of our dreams, our goal here on earth.
Albion refers to England, but it can also refer to a community that has more or less similar goals, like let's say "our" civilization.
We are all sailing in one ship, we are trying to reach Arcadia because we believe we can manage it, but when we realise that Arcadia doesn't exist the ship still goes on and is sailing on course.
Our dreams which were the meaning of our existence, our Arcadia - has fallen. Bodicea comited suicide after loosing her dream, but in our case it's different - we are on the ship together, we are a part of something bigger, that's why we cannot hold back even if we lost our dreams - that's why Albion is still sailing...
"Let's man the decks and hoist the rigging.
Because the pig mans found the source,"
So after losing what we fought for our whole lives - our dreams, it occured that we wanted to reach heaven here on earth what was delusional and impossible. That's why we were called "pig mans", because we were to greedy. But we found the source, that's why after failing of reaching our dream we are reorganising our life ("man the decks and hoist the rigging") because we know purpose from now...
"And there's twelve rude boys on the oars.
They're singing "row row row""
That's a reference to 12 apostles from Bible. Faith is our motor to keep on going although we lost the our dream which was the meaning of our life. "The boys" are "rude", because they're taking us somewhere, although we don't know exactly where we are going, but We have to believe that the direction is right and that's why no matter what "we are sailing on course". After that we finally understand that every day is a "good old day".
"Queen Boadicea is long dead and gone. Still now the spirit in her children's children's children lives on."
Queen Boadicea is a symbol of fighting for dreams, her dream was to save the Brits from the Roman Empire. Although she failed to win, she became a legend and that's why in the next generations her "spirit still lives on" - spirit to fight for our dreams.
"And if you've lost your faith in love and music oh the end wont be long. Because if its come then I too may lose it and that would be wrong."
The word music can't be replaced here by things important to us like poetry, art etc. things that have a high impact on our lives - Pete used word "music" because he's a musician. Love, highest emotion, without that we are nothing.
"I've tried so hard to keep myself from falling back to my bad old ways"
This is a fight with our bad habits - Quenn Bodicea was fighting for freedom againts the Romans. We also have to fight for freedom, sometimes with ourselves.
"and it chars my heart to always hear you calling, calling for the good old days, 'cos there were no good old days, these are the good old days."
People always reminiscence the "good old days", but actually they weren't better then these that we live now. It's because "The good old days" in the future we create here and now.
"It's not about tenements and needles, or all the evils in the eyes and the backs of their minds
Daisy chains and schoolyard games, and a list of things we said we'd do tomorrow, a list of things we said we'd do tomorrow."
Life isn't about our past, it's about our future. Here Pete brings us his personal memories - living in tenement, drugs, being surrounded by people that are "evil" - these are the most recent. The part from "Daisy chains..." it's the earliest life memories when we were little. But all that is not important. That's why he sang "List of things we'd do tomorrow" twice - to emphasise that we all had plans, but life turned out different than our dreams and that's why...
"The Arcadian dream, so fallen through But the Albion sails on course"
Arcadia refers to place of our dreams, our goal here on earth. Albion refers to England, but it can also refer to a community that has more or less similar goals, like let's say "our" civilization. We are all sailing in one ship, we are trying to reach Arcadia because we believe we can manage it, but when we realise that Arcadia doesn't exist the ship still goes on and is sailing on course. Our dreams which were the meaning of our existence, our Arcadia - has fallen. Bodicea comited suicide after loosing her dream, but in our case it's different - we are on the ship together, we are a part of something bigger, that's why we cannot hold back even if we lost our dreams - that's why Albion is still sailing...
"Let's man the decks and hoist the rigging. Because the pig mans found the source,"
So after losing what we fought for our whole lives - our dreams, it occured that we wanted to reach heaven here on earth what was delusional and impossible. That's why we were called "pig mans", because we were to greedy. But we found the source, that's why after failing of reaching our dream we are reorganising our life ("man the decks and hoist the rigging") because we know purpose from now...
"And there's twelve rude boys on the oars. They're singing "row row row""
That's a reference to 12 apostles from Bible. Faith is our motor to keep on going although we lost the our dream which was the meaning of our life. "The boys" are "rude", because they're taking us somewhere, although we don't know exactly where we are going, but We have to believe that the direction is right and that's why no matter what "we are sailing on course". After that we finally understand that every day is a "good old day".
Thank you so much, you make my week or month. :)
Thank you so much, you make my week or month. :)