Simple song, but definitely one of the best I've heard from Gray. It describes a lot of the human experience, how everything- feelings, money, possessions, people - are transient and changeable. I like the interpretation earlier of the line "possibilities limitless / just give me something that's more than this" speaking about how people are never happy with what they have, always looking for something more.
My interpretation which I'll add is of the line "Gates of heaven are open wide / God help me baby I'm trapped inside". After reading this again in the context of the stuff I wrote above it seems to me to be about people's expectations. Heaven is perceived as this wonderful, perfect, unchanging place. And the line is kind of saying that people are trapped in heaven - that they're trapped in this conception of the way life should be as this perfect, unchanging thing when it's simply not. How people expect life to be constant progress, a march towards the gates of heaven, when really they're setting themselves up for disappointment that way.
Simple song, but definitely one of the best I've heard from Gray. It describes a lot of the human experience, how everything- feelings, money, possessions, people - are transient and changeable. I like the interpretation earlier of the line "possibilities limitless / just give me something that's more than this" speaking about how people are never happy with what they have, always looking for something more.
My interpretation which I'll add is of the line "Gates of heaven are open wide / God help me baby I'm trapped inside". After reading this again in the context of the stuff I wrote above it seems to me to be about people's expectations. Heaven is perceived as this wonderful, perfect, unchanging place. And the line is kind of saying that people are trapped in heaven - that they're trapped in this conception of the way life should be as this perfect, unchanging thing when it's simply not. How people expect life to be constant progress, a march towards the gates of heaven, when really they're setting themselves up for disappointment that way.