it is like a prayer, to God, he is like a father, like a mother, like a friend. We have to become like kids (again). :)
otherwise I know another version, he is singing : " ..the sky is blue and my soul used to see .."
Very deep lyrics in my opinion, maybe even Neil didn't knew how deep when he was writing this song.
@highflying I love this song, which I just heard for the first time sitting at Panera, and they are playing some really mellow and sweet and evocative tunes at breakfast time. I wonder who's picking the songs? Anyway, the song is sweet and winsome, and it pulls you in and makes you wonder and reflect on life and goodness by speaking to the child in us, and the fleetingness and mystery of childhood, and the wonder and divinity and knowing and unknowing of our childhood that persists throughout our whole life. It puts me right in touch with longing to...
@highflying I love this song, which I just heard for the first time sitting at Panera, and they are playing some really mellow and sweet and evocative tunes at breakfast time. I wonder who's picking the songs? Anyway, the song is sweet and winsome, and it pulls you in and makes you wonder and reflect on life and goodness by speaking to the child in us, and the fleetingness and mystery of childhood, and the wonder and divinity and knowing and unknowing of our childhood that persists throughout our whole life. It puts me right in touch with longing to know and mystery and the inadequacy of my words and my thoughts to reach and express what I feel and know about n my heart. Heart-knowledge precedes expression, which is why when we hear something said right, we recognize something that we already knew. That is the eternal spark that draws us forward, pulls us up toward Heaven, the home in our hearts.
it is like a prayer, to God, he is like a father, like a mother, like a friend. We have to become like kids (again). :) otherwise I know another version, he is singing : " ..the sky is blue and my soul used to see .." Very deep lyrics in my opinion, maybe even Neil didn't knew how deep when he was writing this song.
@highflying I love this song, which I just heard for the first time sitting at Panera, and they are playing some really mellow and sweet and evocative tunes at breakfast time. I wonder who's picking the songs? Anyway, the song is sweet and winsome, and it pulls you in and makes you wonder and reflect on life and goodness by speaking to the child in us, and the fleetingness and mystery of childhood, and the wonder and divinity and knowing and unknowing of our childhood that persists throughout our whole life. It puts me right in touch with longing to...
@highflying I love this song, which I just heard for the first time sitting at Panera, and they are playing some really mellow and sweet and evocative tunes at breakfast time. I wonder who's picking the songs? Anyway, the song is sweet and winsome, and it pulls you in and makes you wonder and reflect on life and goodness by speaking to the child in us, and the fleetingness and mystery of childhood, and the wonder and divinity and knowing and unknowing of our childhood that persists throughout our whole life. It puts me right in touch with longing to know and mystery and the inadequacy of my words and my thoughts to reach and express what I feel and know about n my heart. Heart-knowledge precedes expression, which is why when we hear something said right, we recognize something that we already knew. That is the eternal spark that draws us forward, pulls us up toward Heaven, the home in our hearts.