I agree, this is the best secular song ever written.
Most people don't understand that a couple of the band members are strong Christian believers. Christian themes abound in many songs (along with stories of LSD trips).
The theme of the album is space travel. By the time we get to side B of the album, we are doing interstallar travel (Gypsy). Traveling at relativistic speeds, the candle of lfe does indeed burn slowly. At .99C, the interstellar traveler would only age at a small fraction of the rate as those on earth. If is very, very lonely in space. A tiny whisper or candle of life in a multi-generational star ship traveling to colonize or explore other star systems. That is why the traveler never thought he'd get to be a hundred, much less a milion.
Fabulous, fabulous song and album written with great knowledge of relativity and what it would be like to cross the great gulfs of space.
I agree, this is the best secular song ever written. Most people don't understand that a couple of the band members are strong Christian believers. Christian themes abound in many songs (along with stories of LSD trips).
The theme of the album is space travel. By the time we get to side B of the album, we are doing interstallar travel (Gypsy). Traveling at relativistic speeds, the candle of lfe does indeed burn slowly. At .99C, the interstellar traveler would only age at a small fraction of the rate as those on earth. If is very, very lonely in space. A tiny whisper or candle of life in a multi-generational star ship traveling to colonize or explore other star systems. That is why the traveler never thought he'd get to be a hundred, much less a milion. Fabulous, fabulous song and album written with great knowledge of relativity and what it would be like to cross the great gulfs of space.