This song is about 'thinking outside the box', being ambitious and breaking through the inertia of the world around us to experience or create something authentic.
There's also subtext about the 'two-dimension scheme' - the cliche of swimming with or against the stream. In the end, someone with real ambition and action "breaks the surface tension" (transcends the dichotomy of culture vs counterculture).
If Power Windows is about 'expressions of power', Grand Designs is about the power of creative expression.
This song is about 'thinking outside the box', being ambitious and breaking through the inertia of the world around us to experience or create something authentic.
There's also subtext about the 'two-dimension scheme' - the cliche of swimming with or against the stream. In the end, someone with real ambition and action "breaks the surface tension" (transcends the dichotomy of culture vs counterculture).
If Power Windows is about 'expressions of power', Grand Designs is about the power of creative expression.