Lyric discussion by drstringz 

I just think it's about the human condition as a whole, after all, we are all constantly missing oppertunities to speak up, to act, to do something to alter the course of history, and the life of the induvidual. I think Mr bird is saying (very poetically, with many a referances that i wont go into) that as humans, we shape our own futures, we "bend our bow" at one angle, one angle out of a dizzying array of possibilities. but i'm probably way off...

no, I agree. time's a cooked bow, you are the arrow progressing through time, but time's a crooked bow and you never know where it will launch you.

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