This song was Burton's interpretation of a poem written by one of his high school classmates. Some lines are unchanged from the original poem, while others are molded to fit around Randy Bachman's guitar doodles and Burton's tinkering piano. It acknowledges that collections of material things can shape the status of a man, but there are dreams of a future time when the man himself defines the man.
This song was Burton's interpretation of a poem written by one of his high school classmates. Some lines are unchanged from the original poem, while others are molded to fit around Randy Bachman's guitar doodles and Burton's tinkering piano. It acknowledges that collections of material things can shape the status of a man, but there are dreams of a future time when the man himself defines the man.