I think this song is about an artist that is away from home and he is getting tired of living alone. Somehow he is making money and is getting some fame, but this keeps him away from his home as he is paied for that and is always stone. He realizes that everything in the artist's life is going to make him die alone and he wishes he had a regular job ("the next stage I'm on, it will have wheels" - like a truck driver or something like that). I think every part is more like that, like how Tom may had felt in his early years as a musician
I think this song is about an artist that is away from home and he is getting tired of living alone. Somehow he is making money and is getting some fame, but this keeps him away from his home as he is paied for that and is always stone. He realizes that everything in the artist's life is going to make him die alone and he wishes he had a regular job ("the next stage I'm on, it will have wheels" - like a truck driver or something like that). I think every part is more like that, like how Tom may had felt in his early years as a musician