Along these same lines was Pink Floyd's later song "Time"... with its lines such as "No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun" etc. etc.
It is a great topic to write a song about, and would have occurred independently to a lot of people. Though I sometimes wonder if Pink Floyd's "The Wall" was not sort of a restatement (with refocus) of Jethro Tull's "Thick as a Brick."
Along these same lines was Pink Floyd's later song "Time"... with its lines such as "No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun" etc. etc.
It is a great topic to write a song about, and would have occurred independently to a lot of people. Though I sometimes wonder if Pink Floyd's "The Wall" was not sort of a restatement (with refocus) of Jethro Tull's "Thick as a Brick."