Notice how the song features both musical and textual metareferences to "The Promised Land". Their piano intros are (deliberately) crafted in very similar patterns and melodies, and in the lyrics, we read a clear-cut statement that the dreams that were somewhat alive on the previous albums, are now dead and gone.
"Do you remember the story of the Promised Land?
How he crossed the desert sands
and could not enter the chosed land
On the banks of the river he stayed
To face the price you pay"
Notice how the song features both musical and textual metareferences to "The Promised Land". Their piano intros are (deliberately) crafted in very similar patterns and melodies, and in the lyrics, we read a clear-cut statement that the dreams that were somewhat alive on the previous albums, are now dead and gone.
"Do you remember the story of the Promised Land? How he crossed the desert sands and could not enter the chosed land On the banks of the river he stayed To face the price you pay"