This song is about never being able to escape your upbringing, and despite what facades you put in your way, you are a product of your childhood. He describes youthful, wild-eyed ambition ("the wildest people they ever hoped to see "), painful adolesence ("Your mother recognizes all you're desperate displays
And she watches as her babies drift violently away"), the hope and dreams of getting to that place they call adulthood, and then the realisation on achieving this of where you came from (" Gonna get back to basics "). The home town is personified and those that leave are satellites that feel gravity's pull of this place, and one by one the realisation that the town was what shaped their minds....is the recovering of the satellites.
This song is about never being able to escape your upbringing, and despite what facades you put in your way, you are a product of your childhood. He describes youthful, wild-eyed ambition ("the wildest people they ever hoped to see "), painful adolesence ("Your mother recognizes all you're desperate displays And she watches as her babies drift violently away"), the hope and dreams of getting to that place they call adulthood, and then the realisation on achieving this of where you came from (" Gonna get back to basics "). The home town is personified and those that leave are satellites that feel gravity's pull of this place, and one by one the realisation that the town was what shaped their minds....is the recovering of the satellites.