It's funny that some people comes up with so complicated theories about this song. It's just what LDux said: It's about creating music. The connection between the artist and his/her art.
"Oh the body swayed to music
Oh the lightning glance"
That part is a quote from a poem called "Among School Children" by William Butler Yeats, a well known Irish poet:
"O body swayed to music, O brightening glance
How can we know the dancer from the dance?"
Both, the song and the poem, are about the relation between the artist and art and also about the power of art to transfigure mortality.
It's funny that some people comes up with so complicated theories about this song. It's just what LDux said: It's about creating music. The connection between the artist and his/her art.
"Oh the body swayed to music Oh the lightning glance"
That part is a quote from a poem called "Among School Children" by William Butler Yeats, a well known Irish poet:
"O body swayed to music, O brightening glance How can we know the dancer from the dance?"
Both, the song and the poem, are about the relation between the artist and art and also about the power of art to transfigure mortality.