Yes, you guys are right about the observation with the sun and the moon. It's the typical parent thing to tell their kids to get a good night's sleep, cuz they need it to live, and this is just one example of scaremongering that parents use to give their kids structure and evoke what they think is important.
I don't think this song is just about sleep or water or whatever other metaphors they use. At its core, this album is about childhood naiveness and how you viewed things back then. It's about how you grow up and look back on it all once you've been met with the real world. How have your controlling parents and your struggle with growing emotions shaped you?
This song in particular is a good example because it makes things very obvious with the simple song structure. This message makes thing particularily clear:
"People say that you'll die
faster than without water.
But we know it's just a lie,
scare your son, scare your daughter."
Yes, you guys are right about the observation with the sun and the moon. It's the typical parent thing to tell their kids to get a good night's sleep, cuz they need it to live, and this is just one example of scaremongering that parents use to give their kids structure and evoke what they think is important.
I don't think this song is just about sleep or water or whatever other metaphors they use. At its core, this album is about childhood naiveness and how you viewed things back then. It's about how you grow up and look back on it all once you've been met with the real world. How have your controlling parents and your struggle with growing emotions shaped you?
This song in particular is a good example because it makes things very obvious with the simple song structure. This message makes thing particularily clear:
"People say that you'll die faster than without water. But we know it's just a lie, scare your son, scare your daughter."