The song is about the opposition between expectation and actual experience, specially when it comes to romance and its rapture. It deals with the inadequacy of the mind, the familiar as confronted with the somehow wild experiences of being in love. It is a song about growing old, in a way.
Especially the verse "My heart's enlarged and I charge"; portrays the somehow juvenile experience of having to take in a lot and further explore, which experience can cause one to feel intoxicated by the delight of knowledge but bothered and confused by the feeling of emptiness, meaning, the realization much is yet to be known, to be conquered, to be figured out, and the uncertainty about whether this emptiness will ever be gone.
This existential problem is very important for a metaphysician called René Guénon, who tried to purport the idea the Eastern traditions have a better answer to it, at least in some ways, than the West. The idea of understanding things comprehensively through universal notions or predicates can aliviate this confusing experience because the universal notions dismiss the feeling there is an unknown beyond. Or, as a religious, e.g. a traditional Catholic like, the holding to a faith can aliviate the feeling of not having enough grasp over things.
The song is about the opposition between expectation and actual experience, specially when it comes to romance and its rapture. It deals with the inadequacy of the mind, the familiar as confronted with the somehow wild experiences of being in love. It is a song about growing old, in a way.
Especially the verse "My heart's enlarged and I charge"; portrays the somehow juvenile experience of having to take in a lot and further explore, which experience can cause one to feel intoxicated by the delight of knowledge but bothered and confused by the feeling of emptiness, meaning, the realization much is yet to be known, to be conquered, to be figured out, and the uncertainty about whether this emptiness will ever be gone.
This existential problem is very important for a metaphysician called René Guénon, who tried to purport the idea the Eastern traditions have a better answer to it, at least in some ways, than the West. The idea of understanding things comprehensively through universal notions or predicates can aliviate this confusing experience because the universal notions dismiss the feeling there is an unknown beyond. Or, as a religious, e.g. a traditional Catholic like, the holding to a faith can aliviate the feeling of not having enough grasp over things.