to me, it seems that the song is about two people that once were in love. Both had their idea's and dreams shattered through the process of life. Both are now lonely and old.
The man in the song (as a young man) fell in love with the the woman in the song. He "conquered his fear to climb (love)" with this woman. She was his first and last love. He's still "frozen in time", his dreams of love were shattered and he never recovered. His dreaming tree was "love". It took him many years to let himself love "Now progress takes away What forever took to find [love]". He was one of the men (adorers) left in "her wake". In the middle of the song, the man is trying to justify his lost love of her. He tells himself that "I know in my mind, I would leave you now". The man never knew why the woman left him, he asks himself "will you not talk", he needs to know why she left him.
The woman he loved (and in the 2nd portion of the song) was young and beautiful, she was confident and she had everything, so she thought ("she was sure she'd make the grade"). The irony is that everything she thought she had was based on her beauty, but her "[beauty} slowly faded". Shes now ready to die ("She feels the fall of dark"). She once had everything. Her beauty "wilted and soured". Now she's lonely and old, the world she knew was turned upside down. She now "drinks (alcohol) to fill [the fact that her life fell apart] up". Her dreaming tree was the the false assumption that everything she earned everything she had, when in reality all the attention she attained wasn't because of anything she did or earned, it was based on her fleeting beauty. In the end, The woman says to herself "take me back, save me please". I'd like to think that shes asking the man to take her back.
Both are now old, both Had their lives fall apart, yet as old men/women, they are there reverting/reflecting back to their childhood, when their dreams were still intact. Both beg their parents to make things go back to how they were before, when ignorance was bliss.
I do believe this song has "multiple layers" of interpretation. Most people have discussed the loss of innocence/youth when people grow up. However, IMO the latter is just the first layer when "peeling this onion".
I do believe this song has "multiple layers" of interpretation. Most people have discussed the loss of innocence/youth when people grow up. However, IMO the latter is just the first layer when "peeling this onion".
Mullett's interpretation "peels away another layer" by giving an exact example of what innocence was lost in someone's youth, their first love. First, no one forgets their first love, assuming you don't marry them, and it leaves a scar that can never be healed. Secondly, he breaks down how losing their first love effects both the boy and girl at different stages of their lives.
to me, it seems that the song is about two people that once were in love. Both had their idea's and dreams shattered through the process of life. Both are now lonely and old.
The man in the song (as a young man) fell in love with the the woman in the song. He "conquered his fear to climb (love)" with this woman. She was his first and last love. He's still "frozen in time", his dreams of love were shattered and he never recovered. His dreaming tree was "love". It took him many years to let himself love "Now progress takes away What forever took to find [love]". He was one of the men (adorers) left in "her wake". In the middle of the song, the man is trying to justify his lost love of her. He tells himself that "I know in my mind, I would leave you now". The man never knew why the woman left him, he asks himself "will you not talk", he needs to know why she left him.
The woman he loved (and in the 2nd portion of the song) was young and beautiful, she was confident and she had everything, so she thought ("she was sure she'd make the grade"). The irony is that everything she thought she had was based on her beauty, but her "[beauty} slowly faded". Shes now ready to die ("She feels the fall of dark"). She once had everything. Her beauty "wilted and soured". Now she's lonely and old, the world she knew was turned upside down. She now "drinks (alcohol) to fill [the fact that her life fell apart] up". Her dreaming tree was the the false assumption that everything she earned everything she had, when in reality all the attention she attained wasn't because of anything she did or earned, it was based on her fleeting beauty. In the end, The woman says to herself "take me back, save me please". I'd like to think that shes asking the man to take her back.
Both are now old, both Had their lives fall apart, yet as old men/women, they are there reverting/reflecting back to their childhood, when their dreams were still intact. Both beg their parents to make things go back to how they were before, when ignorance was bliss.
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Nailed it....
Nailed it....
I do believe this song has "multiple layers" of interpretation. Most people have discussed the loss of innocence/youth when people grow up. However, IMO the latter is just the first layer when "peeling this onion".
I do believe this song has "multiple layers" of interpretation. Most people have discussed the loss of innocence/youth when people grow up. However, IMO the latter is just the first layer when "peeling this onion".
Mullett's interpretation "peels away another layer" by giving an exact example of what innocence was lost in someone's youth, their first love. First, no one forgets their first love, assuming you don't marry them, and it leaves a scar that can never be healed. Secondly, he breaks down how losing their first love effects both the boy and girl at different stages of their lives.