I was very young when this song came out and I had it on 45rpm.I somehow interpreted it as the individual against the world(symbolized by the sky)and the cry of "don't fall on me" as someone downtrodden pleading with whatever was more powerful than them to stop dropping burden after burden on them.
"Lift your arms up to the sky,and ask the sky and ask the sky,don't fall on me"
the isolated,alienated,voiceless individual literally pleading with something/someone in a powerful position to please not burden them anymore(I'd already been through too much s**t at 13).
"There's a progress;we have found a way to talk around the problem...note it's "around" the problem,not talk about it,in other words,avoid and ignore the issue at
hand and the suffering individual.
"I would keep it above,but then it wouldn't be sky anymore;so if I send it to you,you've got to promise to keep it whole"- the individual is making a futile attempt to use reason and logic and have a say,but they are still ignored.
I was very young when this song came out and I had it on 45rpm.I somehow interpreted it as the individual against the world(symbolized by the sky)and the cry of "don't fall on me" as someone downtrodden pleading with whatever was more powerful than them to stop dropping burden after burden on them.
"Lift your arms up to the sky,and ask the sky and ask the sky,don't fall on me"
"There's a progress;we have found a way to talk around the problem...note it's "around" the problem,not talk about it,in other words,avoid and ignore the issue at hand and the suffering individual.
"I would keep it above,but then it wouldn't be sky anymore;so if I send it to you,you've got to promise to keep it whole"- the individual is making a futile attempt to use reason and logic and have a say,but they are still ignored.
Just my own interpretation.