This song is about growing older, and never quite being at peace with your place in the world. About how you're never able to achieve all your desires and ambitions, and how as a kid you somehow envisaged your life being better than how it turned out to be. Even the things that turn out right are never what you expect them to be.
One of many Floyd songs that refer to the loss of childhood innocence, and life never being as much fun as an adult as it was as a kid.
I think the lyrics do deliberately parallel the Floyd's career ('the dizzy heights of that dreamed of world' is the superstardom which was thrust upon them after the runaway success of 'Dark Side Of The Moon'), but I think the song as a whole is much broader than that.
Either way, this is probably my favourite Pink Floyd song.
To me it's about a kid with dreams of becoming more than his current life could offer. Growing up, he decides to leave everything behind and pursue these dreams. When he finally reaches his goals he realizes they weren't what he was really looking, but he's already "burnt his bridges". He wants to go back, but he's changed and it doesn't feel the same anymore. Having lost his roots all he could do now was to continue his "journey"...
To me it's about a kid with dreams of becoming more than his current life could offer. Growing up, he decides to leave everything behind and pursue these dreams. When he finally reaches his goals he realizes they weren't what he was really looking, but he's already "burnt his bridges". He wants to go back, but he's changed and it doesn't feel the same anymore. Having lost his roots all he could do now was to continue his "journey"...
This song is about growing older, and never quite being at peace with your place in the world. About how you're never able to achieve all your desires and ambitions, and how as a kid you somehow envisaged your life being better than how it turned out to be. Even the things that turn out right are never what you expect them to be.
One of many Floyd songs that refer to the loss of childhood innocence, and life never being as much fun as an adult as it was as a kid.
I think the lyrics do deliberately parallel the Floyd's career ('the dizzy heights of that dreamed of world' is the superstardom which was thrust upon them after the runaway success of 'Dark Side Of The Moon'), but I think the song as a whole is much broader than that.
Either way, this is probably my favourite Pink Floyd song.
To me it's about a kid with dreams of becoming more than his current life could offer. Growing up, he decides to leave everything behind and pursue these dreams. When he finally reaches his goals he realizes they weren't what he was really looking, but he's already "burnt his bridges". He wants to go back, but he's changed and it doesn't feel the same anymore. Having lost his roots all he could do now was to continue his "journey"...
To me it's about a kid with dreams of becoming more than his current life could offer. Growing up, he decides to leave everything behind and pursue these dreams. When he finally reaches his goals he realizes they weren't what he was really looking, but he's already "burnt his bridges". He wants to go back, but he's changed and it doesn't feel the same anymore. Having lost his roots all he could do now was to continue his "journey"...
(Whoops... sorry... I wanted to post a simple comment, not a reply)
(Whoops... sorry... I wanted to post a simple comment, not a reply)
(Whoops... sorry... I wanted to post a simple comment, not a reply)
(Whoops... sorry... I wanted to post a simple comment, not a reply)