This song is so uplifting! It seems to me that he is comparing himself to someone who has had a different experience of life but what they share in common is reaching too high, too far, too soon. He admires this person's or persons' ability to see the bigger picture i.e the whole of the moon. Life for him is confusing "i had flashes", and so he drifted about "I wondered out in the world for years" but they did not. He was grounded, meaning he understood the world in conventional terms whereas the other just lived in the moment drawing from intuition "while you filled the skies". What they both share in common is unrealisticly high aspirations and so they reached too high, too far and too soon. It might be nothing more than a left brain dominant person admiring a right brain dominant and the greater message being that regardless of how you see and experience the world neither is immune to the reality of the world outside their inner world i.e failure.
This song is so uplifting! It seems to me that he is comparing himself to someone who has had a different experience of life but what they share in common is reaching too high, too far, too soon. He admires this person's or persons' ability to see the bigger picture i.e the whole of the moon. Life for him is confusing "i had flashes", and so he drifted about "I wondered out in the world for years" but they did not. He was grounded, meaning he understood the world in conventional terms whereas the other just lived in the moment drawing from intuition "while you filled the skies". What they both share in common is unrealisticly high aspirations and so they reached too high, too far and too soon. It might be nothing more than a left brain dominant person admiring a right brain dominant and the greater message being that regardless of how you see and experience the world neither is immune to the reality of the world outside their inner world i.e failure.