This song discusses the despair of society and how conformists are leading everythinh down the wrong path. Back then "prophets" dreamed of an ideal society and the "late men" and "moonchildren" are trying to crawl along that path that is being shattered by modern society: politicians, war, everything. However, the tone of despair rings that this path is growing harder to crawl across and may be gone eventually if things progress this way. The is somewhat of a combination of schizoid man and i talk to the wind: this is the "late man's" fear that the world will become that of the schizoid man.
This song discusses the despair of society and how conformists are leading everythinh down the wrong path. Back then "prophets" dreamed of an ideal society and the "late men" and "moonchildren" are trying to crawl along that path that is being shattered by modern society: politicians, war, everything. However, the tone of despair rings that this path is growing harder to crawl across and may be gone eventually if things progress this way. The is somewhat of a combination of schizoid man and i talk to the wind: this is the "late man's" fear that the world will become that of the schizoid man.