I agree with Keith Angus Page. I've seen many interpretations of this song where it is praised as calming and relaxing and (gulp) cheerful. Those people, I think, are conflating their attachments to the new-agey Eno of the 80s and 90s with the darker Eno of the 70s. Here the lush layers of guitar and synth and the existential lyrics make this an subtly ominous song, one that intermixes a sense of ecstasy with a deep desire for the release of death. It continues to blow my that someone created this in the early 70s.
I agree with Keith Angus Page. I've seen many interpretations of this song where it is praised as calming and relaxing and (gulp) cheerful. Those people, I think, are conflating their attachments to the new-agey Eno of the 80s and 90s with the darker Eno of the 70s. Here the lush layers of guitar and synth and the existential lyrics make this an subtly ominous song, one that intermixes a sense of ecstasy with a deep desire for the release of death. It continues to blow my that someone created this in the early 70s.