I believe that the Lyric "Holding Back the Years" is about
a period of time in the past and presently not taking action
in his life in making it better due to fear of self worth, accomplishment
and success.
I think this is a song about a person that was mentally abused by his parents
where the parents did not wish their child to succeed in life, leaving the now adult
with fears of success and really living a happy life due to the abuse.
"Chance for me to escape from all I know"
meaning he needs to get away from the destructive thoughts and fears he learned from
the negative upbringing.
@Gmaddox322 Or it could've been that his parent's, particularly his father kept pushing him and pushing him to do one thing when he wanted to do something else, kinda like that kid Neil in Dead Poets Society. He wanted to be an actor and his father pushed him to study medicine, even to the point of pulling him out of the boarding school with his friends and sending him to military school to prepare to go to Harvard. That can be mentally abusive, even to the point of suicide.
@Gmaddox322 Or it could've been that his parent's, particularly his father kept pushing him and pushing him to do one thing when he wanted to do something else, kinda like that kid Neil in Dead Poets Society. He wanted to be an actor and his father pushed him to study medicine, even to the point of pulling him out of the boarding school with his friends and sending him to military school to prepare to go to Harvard. That can be mentally abusive, even to the point of suicide.
I believe that the Lyric "Holding Back the Years" is about a period of time in the past and presently not taking action in his life in making it better due to fear of self worth, accomplishment and success. I think this is a song about a person that was mentally abused by his parents where the parents did not wish their child to succeed in life, leaving the now adult with fears of success and really living a happy life due to the abuse.
"Chance for me to escape from all I know" meaning he needs to get away from the destructive thoughts and fears he learned from the negative upbringing.
@Gmaddox322 Or it could've been that his parent's, particularly his father kept pushing him and pushing him to do one thing when he wanted to do something else, kinda like that kid Neil in Dead Poets Society. He wanted to be an actor and his father pushed him to study medicine, even to the point of pulling him out of the boarding school with his friends and sending him to military school to prepare to go to Harvard. That can be mentally abusive, even to the point of suicide.
@Gmaddox322 Or it could've been that his parent's, particularly his father kept pushing him and pushing him to do one thing when he wanted to do something else, kinda like that kid Neil in Dead Poets Society. He wanted to be an actor and his father pushed him to study medicine, even to the point of pulling him out of the boarding school with his friends and sending him to military school to prepare to go to Harvard. That can be mentally abusive, even to the point of suicide.
@Gmaddox322 agree
@Gmaddox322 agree