This song/album is such an existential goldmine for me.
How I've come to interpret this song is the traveler is simply a person. I don't think there's necessarily a boundary on this. Time and gravity are metaphors for experience and facticity. Time which implies movement through space is everything that said traveler has gone through and experienced. Facticity being conditions in your life that you had no choice of having i.e. gravity. I think the use of gravity in this song envelops the weight of living in general, which again we didn't have the choice to do. He then requests to hear about the ocean. The ocean being the sum of the uncontrollable conditions and what was done with them (time and gravity). He's obviously never seen an ocean like that one because we all have an "ocean" of knowledge and wisdom that is completely and utterly different from anyone else.
I think this might just be Maynards way of expressing his gratitude for people or existence rather. Like the simple fact that my perceptions color my reality a different color than you gives me and you the opportunity of learning something we may have never known, Sharing yourself is one of the most important things you can do in this life I feel and this song thoroughly exemplifies that in my opinion.
And just as a little side note, Maynard also mentions gravity in a similar way in the APC song gravity. After listening to both of these songs I feel that their very similar in depth and meaning.
This song/album is such an existential goldmine for me.
How I've come to interpret this song is the traveler is simply a person. I don't think there's necessarily a boundary on this. Time and gravity are metaphors for experience and facticity. Time which implies movement through space is everything that said traveler has gone through and experienced. Facticity being conditions in your life that you had no choice of having i.e. gravity. I think the use of gravity in this song envelops the weight of living in general, which again we didn't have the choice to do. He then requests to hear about the ocean. The ocean being the sum of the uncontrollable conditions and what was done with them (time and gravity). He's obviously never seen an ocean like that one because we all have an "ocean" of knowledge and wisdom that is completely and utterly different from anyone else.
I think this might just be Maynards way of expressing his gratitude for people or existence rather. Like the simple fact that my perceptions color my reality a different color than you gives me and you the opportunity of learning something we may have never known, Sharing yourself is one of the most important things you can do in this life I feel and this song thoroughly exemplifies that in my opinion.
And just as a little side note, Maynard also mentions gravity in a similar way in the APC song gravity. After listening to both of these songs I feel that their very similar in depth and meaning.