Lyric discussion by MissI3behaved 

"and the cats in the cradle and the silver spoon, little boy blue and the man on the moon"

basically "the cats in the cradle" is the son and the "silver spoon" is the father in the sense that the son is at home while the father is away making money to feed (silver spoon) and take care of the childs welfare.

"little boy blue and the man on the moon" explains how far away they are from each other...a little boy on the earth compared to his father who is so far away he might as well be in space.

and the fact that he says all of this using several nursery rhymes put together...is just ingenious.

omg I been trying to figure that out for like EVER

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