This is IMO the most personal self describing song lyrics he has ever written.
The airy, spacey feeling he is having alongside his awareness of being small in a vast universe is just his feeling of connection with everything. A higher level of awareness, akin to kensho. He stares at the stars with understanding due to our recent scientific and astronomic discoveries.
The person he describes is a singer of sorts, who walks the empty sidewalks at night, humming and trying to pretend that some lost love lives inside one of the houses. Since the title of the record is Peeping Tom, he might even be having an unhealthy and voyeuristic obsession with some woman he sees in a window along his walks.
" Under your balcony, singin' the serenade "
In this song he goes from someone who feels insignificant and alone. Outside of things, peering in on other lives. But when he spots someone who catches his interest, ZOOM ! He is off in the land of grandiose delusions.
I will do the impossible ! Chew on Mountain Tops !
I will finally amount to something, just to impress you !
I'm going to buckle down.
Then he realizes that he is not in the land of delusions.
Back on Earth again, but he tries to remember that spur of energy and motivation, to keep going out and doing his thing.
He'll never give up, he promises.
He will bring her the crown, which is a trophy of achievement, to show " Her " that he is a success and it all due to " Her "
Then last lines are my favorite because I think it is the peeping tom seeing a light come on, or a face stare back in the window. And he flees !
This my take, could be wrong.
This is IMO the most personal self describing song lyrics he has ever written.
The airy, spacey feeling he is having alongside his awareness of being small in a vast universe is just his feeling of connection with everything. A higher level of awareness, akin to kensho. He stares at the stars with understanding due to our recent scientific and astronomic discoveries.
The person he describes is a singer of sorts, who walks the empty sidewalks at night, humming and trying to pretend that some lost love lives inside one of the houses. Since the title of the record is Peeping Tom, he might even be having an unhealthy and voyeuristic obsession with some woman he sees in a window along his walks.
" Under your balcony, singin' the serenade "
In this song he goes from someone who feels insignificant and alone. Outside of things, peering in on other lives. But when he spots someone who catches his interest, ZOOM ! He is off in the land of grandiose delusions.
I will do the impossible ! Chew on Mountain Tops !
I will finally amount to something, just to impress you !
I'm going to buckle down.
Then he realizes that he is not in the land of delusions.
Back on Earth again, but he tries to remember that spur of energy and motivation, to keep going out and doing his thing.
He'll never give up, he promises. He will bring her the crown, which is a trophy of achievement, to show " Her " that he is a success and it all due to " Her "
Then last lines are my favorite because I think it is the peeping tom seeing a light come on, or a face stare back in the window. And he flees !
On the other hand, I'm out of here my friend.
my two cents