Guster7 I think you're a little young to fully understand this song. Althought I'm not much older than you, this song has become very meaningful to me (as has the entire album).
First a little background. I had a very successful career in a small public high school in a small city. Not to sound conceited but I think I was pretty well like by almost everyone. Basically the whole "big fish in a small pond" cliche. Now I go to school at a large, high-level college. and am a "small fish in a large pond."
Anyways the way I interperet this song is like this:
When you're young you have all these dreams about these wonderful things you can do. You think you're on top of the world and nothing can bring you down. Then, as you grow up, you begin to realize that everyone as has these big dreams as well. And some of them really will acheive these goals but most won't. Your dreams have been crushed.
I guess you could say the theme of the song is "ignorance is bliss." The speaker/writer wants to return to a time when he had all these dreams. The Red Oyster Cult is a fanastic group that drink an elixir to make them remain young forever. I think the song has a sarcastic tone, because there is no such group or elixir. Hopes to remain young and "green" to the real world forever are mere fantasy.
By the way life isn't as bad as I make it seem here. There are many great things about going to college/growing up. This is just one of the downsides that hits some people pretty hard.
Guster7 I think you're a little young to fully understand this song. Althought I'm not much older than you, this song has become very meaningful to me (as has the entire album).
First a little background. I had a very successful career in a small public high school in a small city. Not to sound conceited but I think I was pretty well like by almost everyone. Basically the whole "big fish in a small pond" cliche. Now I go to school at a large, high-level college. and am a "small fish in a large pond."
Anyways the way I interperet this song is like this: When you're young you have all these dreams about these wonderful things you can do. You think you're on top of the world and nothing can bring you down. Then, as you grow up, you begin to realize that everyone as has these big dreams as well. And some of them really will acheive these goals but most won't. Your dreams have been crushed.
I guess you could say the theme of the song is "ignorance is bliss." The speaker/writer wants to return to a time when he had all these dreams. The Red Oyster Cult is a fanastic group that drink an elixir to make them remain young forever. I think the song has a sarcastic tone, because there is no such group or elixir. Hopes to remain young and "green" to the real world forever are mere fantasy.
By the way life isn't as bad as I make it seem here. There are many great things about going to college/growing up. This is just one of the downsides that hits some people pretty hard.