I've listened to this song for 30 years at this point and still haven't grown tired of it! It takes on a new meaning of regret for me now.
To me it's a lamentation of the "could've been" (or even the "never been, never felt, never thought I'd say a word"). You had some passion that you didn't pursue because it didn't seem like a good/safe investment. Now years later, that talent, that passion, that dream deferred, that spirit suppressed is fading... and it calls out. The person you've become just ignores it because they've chosen a different life... "no one hears me." And as the suppressed spirit beholds the corporate drone in which it now resides, "Now I'm hiding in the fallout... now I'm wasted. They don't need me don't want me don't hear a word I say..."
Even the "weighed down/safe now." Weighed down by responsibility and expectation from elders, friends, society... you chose the safe path. The safe career with a predictable future. But in that muted character, you've given up the adornment of personality. You might as well be naked inside your fear of failure. Can't take back all the years you didn't commit to your dream; attempts to are just shots in the dark from empty guns (holy crap that hits hard when I pick up my guit today).
I've listened to this song for 30 years at this point and still haven't grown tired of it! It takes on a new meaning of regret for me now.
To me it's a lamentation of the "could've been" (or even the "never been, never felt, never thought I'd say a word"). You had some passion that you didn't pursue because it didn't seem like a good/safe investment. Now years later, that talent, that passion, that dream deferred, that spirit suppressed is fading... and it calls out. The person you've become just ignores it because they've chosen a different life... "no one hears me." And as the suppressed spirit beholds the corporate drone in which it now resides, "Now I'm hiding in the fallout... now I'm wasted. They don't need me don't want me don't hear a word I say..."
Even the "weighed down/safe now." Weighed down by responsibility and expectation from elders, friends, society... you chose the safe path. The safe career with a predictable future. But in that muted character, you've given up the adornment of personality. You might as well be naked inside your fear of failure. Can't take back all the years you didn't commit to your dream; attempts to are just shots in the dark from empty guns (holy crap that hits hard when I pick up my guit today).