The song by Tim Buckley is a powerful poetic statement about the way he saw the US society he was living in at that time in the late 60s. The mechanical machine electronic age suffocating young lives. Money and greed and consumerist society with it's possessions killing our relative freedoms. He places nature over progessive change. This is a song about how the old ways must end for the young to hopefully live in an authentic world.
The song by Tim Buckley is a powerful poetic statement about the way he saw the US society he was living in at that time in the late 60s. The mechanical machine electronic age suffocating young lives. Money and greed and consumerist society with it's possessions killing our relative freedoms. He places nature over progessive change. This is a song about how the old ways must end for the young to hopefully live in an authentic world.