I thought it was about masturbation. She came undone, yknow.

(I'll see myself out..)

I just see it as talking about how people can lose their way and be disappointed with life when the train they jumped on does not get to the station they felt they were headed for. It could have been religion, sex, drugs, fame, truth, love or anything. It really doesn’t matter what track you’re on the result is the same when your perceived support system falls short.

casts a jaundiced eye jon's way

So, world in general then arse_hat? I thought depression because she seems to descend into a blackness "losing the sun". Everything is a struggle "Too many mountains, and not enough stairs to climb". The stuff about 'too many churches and not enough truth' and 'too many people and not enough eyes to see' don't fit that and I've no idea what they're getting at.

Depression brought about by whatever. I mean churches could be almost anything people follow and not enough eyes is pretty generic also. Folks just not seeing things in a way that supports her world view.

According to Songfacts, "The lyrics are about a girl (Randy) Bachman saw at a party who went into a coma after dropping acid".

For me it sort of speaks about that chasm (which is often traversed in a single heartrending moment) between the naive black and white idealism of our youth when we believe everything is possible, we will live forever, and truth is immutable... and the other side.

This is a sort of "second birth" in one's life, and so traumatic that some don't survive the leap, or often lose themselves for years before reconciling to it.

This was playing in the grocery store last night. (Yes, plinky piano and all.) I don't know about you but when a song I like is playing I like to stop and listen to it, so I'm standing there like an eedjit by the tinned soups until it's over.

I remember one weekend a radio station was doing an all-request '60s weekend, I came in drunk at 2:00 am, phoned the station, asked for this, crashed and burned. Woke up after about 12 solid hours, turned on the radio and the song started at that moment.

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