Some say this song is about high hopes... how everyone has high hopes about their lives... how far they go but the regret of not having gotten to where they really wanted to and then "Looking beyond the embers of bridges glowing behind us. To a glimpse of how green it was on the other side" .... but still "There's a hunger still unsatisfied Our weary eyes still stray to the horizon Though down this road we've been so many times" we keep looking forward until we die.
Personally for me, this song means of a past world. Of a world that was beautiful and less complex as opposed to today.
" The grass was greener
The light was brighter
The taste was sweeter
The nights of wonder
With friends surrounded
The dawn mist glowing
The water flowing
The endless river
Forever and ever ..."
But a glimpse of hope for a world as beautiful as it was is envisaged in the lines
" Looking beyond the embers of bridges glowing behind us
To a glimpse of how green it was on the other side...
Encumbered forever by desire and ambition
There's a hunger still unsatisfied
Our weary eyes still stray to the horizon
Though down this road we've been so many time"
This high paced life that we live leaves us with no room for basking the past. Hope there comes some juncture in our lives where the present meets the past and we can grow up again in a beautiful world
" Along the long road and on down the causeway
Do they still meet there by the cut?"
