And what if the song isn't at all an invitation to do something (enjoying life etc.) but a story, a point of view on human history described in first person and present time. It makes sense if you consider the context: a wonderful album that's all about evolution, natural history from the Big Bang up to the philosophical thinking and technological dociety.
From this pov Elan says human being started his very beginning deeply related with Nature (tongues before man, the daffodil that tell a tale are the skills of first humans to read the Nature). Then evolved into something more complex and has been the first to greet the mourn (the first species to share things - let the guest in - and to be amazed by the beauty of a sunrise in the morning).
Try to read the text with this key and you'll see many things fits:
The meadows of heaven await harvest
The cliffs unjumped, cold waters untouched
The elsewhere creatures yet unseen
This part is about the epic journey of humans exploring the world until they became the dominant specie (finally your number came up).
Come, taste the wine
Raise the blind
They will guide you from the light
Writing noughts till the end of time
Come, surf the clouds
Race the dark
It feeds from the runs undone
Meet me where the cliff greets the sea
The refrain is about what humans do: they enjoy life (taste the wine), follows blind leaders, writes nonsense stuffs.
The needs of humans for exploring the unknown (the clouds- the dark) till the limit (where the cliffs greets the sea is clearly a border point within land and water).
The final part:
The answer to the riddle before your eyes
Is in dead leaves and fleeting skies
Returning swans and sedulous mice
Writing's on the gardens book, in the minute of a lover's look
Building a sandcastle close to the shore
A house of cards from a worn-out deck
A home from the fellowship, poise and calm
Write a lyric for the song only you can understand
This is about the sense of human being existence and is deeply present in other songs of the album. Humans are here to last very shortly (a minute of a lovers look). During this quick time - in the comparison of huge space-time dimensions) humans try to understand a sense of it all (writing on the garden's book - where garden is Mother Nature) but all their material achievements (civilizations - technologies etc.) are just sandcastles close to the shore or house of cards that will be quickly cancelled forever. So the answer to the great riddle (the meaning of life and of the universe) is in dead leaves and fleeting skies: everithing is going to decompose (like dead leaves) or to change quickly like clouds in the sky. There's also the great lonelyness of human being that can understand many but there'snt any other living form to share that understanding (a lyric of a song only you can undrstand). Even in that lonely and fragile main condition, humans live their existence with great Elàn. In that sense yes, being the answer to the great riddle to live life with Elàn, it could be an invitation to that as well.
Does it makes sense to someone else but me? 😂
Sergio from Italy
And what if the song isn't at all an invitation to do something (enjoying life etc.) but a story, a point of view on human history described in first person and present time. It makes sense if you consider the context: a wonderful album that's all about evolution, natural history from the Big Bang up to the philosophical thinking and technological dociety. From this pov Elan says human being started his very beginning deeply related with Nature (tongues before man, the daffodil that tell a tale are the skills of first humans to read the Nature). Then evolved into something more complex and has been the first to greet the mourn (the first species to share things - let the guest in - and to be amazed by the beauty of a sunrise in the morning). Try to read the text with this key and you'll see many things fits: The meadows of heaven await harvest The cliffs unjumped, cold waters untouched The elsewhere creatures yet unseen
This part is about the epic journey of humans exploring the world until they became the dominant specie (finally your number came up). Come, taste the wine Raise the blind They will guide you from the light Writing noughts till the end of time Come, surf the clouds Race the dark It feeds from the runs undone Meet me where the cliff greets the sea
The refrain is about what humans do: they enjoy life (taste the wine), follows blind leaders, writes nonsense stuffs. The needs of humans for exploring the unknown (the clouds- the dark) till the limit (where the cliffs greets the sea is clearly a border point within land and water).
The final part: The answer to the riddle before your eyes Is in dead leaves and fleeting skies Returning swans and sedulous mice Writing's on the gardens book, in the minute of a lover's look Building a sandcastle close to the shore A house of cards from a worn-out deck A home from the fellowship, poise and calm Write a lyric for the song only you can understand
This is about the sense of human being existence and is deeply present in other songs of the album. Humans are here to last very shortly (a minute of a lovers look). During this quick time - in the comparison of huge space-time dimensions) humans try to understand a sense of it all (writing on the garden's book - where garden is Mother Nature) but all their material achievements (civilizations - technologies etc.) are just sandcastles close to the shore or house of cards that will be quickly cancelled forever. So the answer to the great riddle (the meaning of life and of the universe) is in dead leaves and fleeting skies: everithing is going to decompose (like dead leaves) or to change quickly like clouds in the sky. There's also the great lonelyness of human being that can understand many but there'snt any other living form to share that understanding (a lyric of a song only you can undrstand). Even in that lonely and fragile main condition, humans live their existence with great Elàn. In that sense yes, being the answer to the great riddle to live life with Elàn, it could be an invitation to that as well.
Does it makes sense to someone else but me? 😂 Sergio from Italy