I take a simpler approach to the meaning of this song - which by the way is my favorite Tull song. I agree it relates to one's spiritual path. However, listen to the first two lines of the song - "Every day there's someone asking, what is there to do ? Should I love or should I fight, is it all the same to you ? I take those two questions literally as to the meaning of this song. Plain or simple - should one love or should one fight ? To love or to fight also relates to the comment "Climb a tower of freedom paint your own deceiving sign. It's not my part to criticize or to ask you to be blind to your own pressing problem and the hate you must unwind". (A tower of freedom representing being free from the burdens of negative emotions or hate so that one may love). In other words, it's tough to truly love someone until you have unwound hate or other negative emotions). So the answer is to find a way to unwind your hate and then you can love.
I take a simpler approach to the meaning of this song - which by the way is my favorite Tull song. I agree it relates to one's spiritual path. However, listen to the first two lines of the song - "Every day there's someone asking, what is there to do ? Should I love or should I fight, is it all the same to you ? I take those two questions literally as to the meaning of this song. Plain or simple - should one love or should one fight ? To love or to fight also relates to the comment "Climb a tower of freedom paint your own deceiving sign. It's not my part to criticize or to ask you to be blind to your own pressing problem and the hate you must unwind". (A tower of freedom representing being free from the burdens of negative emotions or hate so that one may love). In other words, it's tough to truly love someone until you have unwound hate or other negative emotions). So the answer is to find a way to unwind your hate and then you can love.