I think in general this song is pretty self-explanatory, but I noticed a couple people here have misinterpreted its overarching theme, so I'll just add my two cents here:
This song, like various other songs on the record, such as Feeling Yourself Disintegrate, is primarily about realizing you're getting older and getting nostalgic at intermittent moments, realizing how fast life has gone. It's about the fact that we often don't realize how much life has changed until we sit down and think about it. It's at the most banal moments within our lives that we realize how much has changed since our childhood, such as when we're doing the laundry. It's at these repetitious moments that we start to think more cosmically and in the context of our entire lives.
This year, I turned 18, and it was surreal to think that I had finally reached the age of majority--an age that, in my childhood, seemed so distant. It sunk in this year that I was getting older, that being an adult was actually possible, and that it wasn't much different from being a child. But as I thought back to the euphoric moments I had experienced during my childhood, I realized that many things actually had changed. Simply driving down the road could elicit such thoughts, realizing that even the sky seemed different as I had gotten older.
This entire album is amazing, because of how cosmically it views our lives and the world at large. This song is certainly one of its highlights.
I think in general this song is pretty self-explanatory, but I noticed a couple people here have misinterpreted its overarching theme, so I'll just add my two cents here:
This song, like various other songs on the record, such as Feeling Yourself Disintegrate, is primarily about realizing you're getting older and getting nostalgic at intermittent moments, realizing how fast life has gone. It's about the fact that we often don't realize how much life has changed until we sit down and think about it. It's at the most banal moments within our lives that we realize how much has changed since our childhood, such as when we're doing the laundry. It's at these repetitious moments that we start to think more cosmically and in the context of our entire lives.
This year, I turned 18, and it was surreal to think that I had finally reached the age of majority--an age that, in my childhood, seemed so distant. It sunk in this year that I was getting older, that being an adult was actually possible, and that it wasn't much different from being a child. But as I thought back to the euphoric moments I had experienced during my childhood, I realized that many things actually had changed. Simply driving down the road could elicit such thoughts, realizing that even the sky seemed different as I had gotten older.
This entire album is amazing, because of how cosmically it views our lives and the world at large. This song is certainly one of its highlights.