I think it's about a musical awakening, like when you first start figuring out how to play an instrument or write a song and then suddenly a whole new world opens up to you. The alternate lyrics on the vinyl record version are about the same kind of thing, but a musical awakening that happens much later in life; it's about looking at yourself and realizing you don't fully recognize the person you've become, thinking that maybe your creative process has become too depersonalized or too commodified, and then deciding it's time to let yourself go and try something completely new, to let yourself enter a universe you don't understand yet. Also, this might be reaching, but it feels kind of apt or intentional that digital music, being the younger/newer format, has the version of the lyrics that's about a young kid, while the older format has the version that's about an adult trying to get out of the ways they've been stuck in.
I think it's about a musical awakening, like when you first start figuring out how to play an instrument or write a song and then suddenly a whole new world opens up to you. The alternate lyrics on the vinyl record version are about the same kind of thing, but a musical awakening that happens much later in life; it's about looking at yourself and realizing you don't fully recognize the person you've become, thinking that maybe your creative process has become too depersonalized or too commodified, and then deciding it's time to let yourself go and try something completely new, to let yourself enter a universe you don't understand yet. Also, this might be reaching, but it feels kind of apt or intentional that digital music, being the younger/newer format, has the version of the lyrics that's about a young kid, while the older format has the version that's about an adult trying to get out of the ways they've been stuck in.