I think this song is about finding yourself. You feel something is missing, you're missing a "home", you feel incomplete, so you have to walk the roads of life alone for a while. When it's all said and done though, home was never outside of you, it was always inside. Our real home, our true identity and that thing that completes us is inside. We were already home all along, never left.
The ending really seals it for me though. He starts to sing row, row, row your boat, gently down the stream. The stream he's referring to is the stream of life, consciousness, time? One of those or maybe all of those. What he leaves unsaid at the end is the true nature of the song. Life is but a dream. You never left home, home in this case being the universal truth that lies in us all, the universal consciousness, and this life you live is just a dream where you can find your way back home.
I think this song is about finding yourself. You feel something is missing, you're missing a "home", you feel incomplete, so you have to walk the roads of life alone for a while. When it's all said and done though, home was never outside of you, it was always inside. Our real home, our true identity and that thing that completes us is inside. We were already home all along, never left.
The ending really seals it for me though. He starts to sing row, row, row your boat, gently down the stream. The stream he's referring to is the stream of life, consciousness, time? One of those or maybe all of those. What he leaves unsaid at the end is the true nature of the song. Life is but a dream. You never left home, home in this case being the universal truth that lies in us all, the universal consciousness, and this life you live is just a dream where you can find your way back home.
That's how I see it anyway, maybe I'm wrong.