This is one of the most beautiful and relatable songs I know. The character is explaining his hesitance and insecurity in committing to a girl.
The relationship is slowly growing in closeness every day and the man is scared because he feels like it's fated to bugger up. After all, he buggers up everything he does, he "floats like a cannonball".
It is interspersed with something I think everyone over a certain age can relate to: the realisation that all your teachers in life, parents, role models, whatever, didn't in fact know what they were doing themselves; they were stones teaching people to fly. In light of this, how is a poor sap like this bloke, or any of us, supposed to have any idea what we're doing either?
It's this realisation, that there are no guarantees in life, which makes people age more than anything else.
This is one of the most beautiful and relatable songs I know. The character is explaining his hesitance and insecurity in committing to a girl.
The relationship is slowly growing in closeness every day and the man is scared because he feels like it's fated to bugger up. After all, he buggers up everything he does, he "floats like a cannonball".
It is interspersed with something I think everyone over a certain age can relate to: the realisation that all your teachers in life, parents, role models, whatever, didn't in fact know what they were doing themselves; they were stones teaching people to fly. In light of this, how is a poor sap like this bloke, or any of us, supposed to have any idea what we're doing either?
It's this realisation, that there are no guarantees in life, which makes people age more than anything else.