After reading all of these posts I still think this song is about being a rockstar who is constantly touring. The first verse explains how hes preparing to go on tour. In the chorus he talks about how it will take him a long time to realize that he's become someone different than who he was at home and how his family and friends envisioned him. The title rocket man is interesting too because when I think of an astronaut I don't initially think "rocket man", I think spaceman or something along those lines so I think its possible he intentionally used the word rocket to imply that he would burn up. Actually Neil Young once said that it's better to "burn out" than to fade away. The part about kids alludes to various children of famous musicians who never really had full-time parents like the case of Julian Lennon. I think this is one of those most significant pieces of evidence to the rockstar theory because if he lived on Mars why would there be no one there to raise his children if they were there too? The science part in my opinion is about either the technicalities of music like music theory or its about how the press follows him around incessantly involving the world with his business because it's just his job. Just my two cents.
@anakin821 Rocket man is about being gay. There is an allusion to venus/mars, and the kind of "man" the singer really is. The rocket illusion is similar to the Queen's Killer Queen "Dynamite with a laser beam", just a little less poetic.
@anakin821 Rocket man is about being gay. There is an allusion to venus/mars, and the kind of "man" the singer really is. The rocket illusion is similar to the Queen's Killer Queen "Dynamite with a laser beam", just a little less poetic.
After reading all of these posts I still think this song is about being a rockstar who is constantly touring. The first verse explains how hes preparing to go on tour. In the chorus he talks about how it will take him a long time to realize that he's become someone different than who he was at home and how his family and friends envisioned him. The title rocket man is interesting too because when I think of an astronaut I don't initially think "rocket man", I think spaceman or something along those lines so I think its possible he intentionally used the word rocket to imply that he would burn up. Actually Neil Young once said that it's better to "burn out" than to fade away. The part about kids alludes to various children of famous musicians who never really had full-time parents like the case of Julian Lennon. I think this is one of those most significant pieces of evidence to the rockstar theory because if he lived on Mars why would there be no one there to raise his children if they were there too? The science part in my opinion is about either the technicalities of music like music theory or its about how the press follows him around incessantly involving the world with his business because it's just his job. Just my two cents.
Wow, nice thinking! It seems like you're right...
Wow, nice thinking! It seems like you're right...
@anakin821 Rocket man is about being gay. There is an allusion to venus/mars, and the kind of "man" the singer really is. The rocket illusion is similar to the Queen's Killer Queen "Dynamite with a laser beam", just a little less poetic.
@anakin821 Rocket man is about being gay. There is an allusion to venus/mars, and the kind of "man" the singer really is. The rocket illusion is similar to the Queen's Killer Queen "Dynamite with a laser beam", just a little less poetic.