So this is a very blunt interpretations but no one else seems to be offering anything
The song follows a boy who grows up around the tree's and nature but as time passes he begins to drift from the tree's and years later returns to the forest he once called his friend only to cut it down building a highway through it and using the lumber for warmth
This view goes along with some of the other things Islam has written about especially on the album Tea for the Tillerman with themes of growing up like in "Father And Son" and of the industrial destruction of nature from "Where do the children play"
So this is a very blunt interpretations but no one else seems to be offering anything
The song follows a boy who grows up around the tree's and nature but as time passes he begins to drift from the tree's and years later returns to the forest he once called his friend only to cut it down building a highway through it and using the lumber for warmth
This view goes along with some of the other things Islam has written about especially on the album Tea for the Tillerman with themes of growing up like in "Father And Son" and of the industrial destruction of nature from "Where do the children play"