The future is certain (I know that life has nothing but adventures, good times and even bad times ahead, and I have faith in myself that it will all work out), so Mom would you please just give me time to work it out! I am no longer a little child and I do know what I want (to enjoy life above all and to help others). I know where I'm goin' (to try to enjoy everyday of life), but I don't know where I've been or what I've seen (not exactly but this line helps explain my too many drunken nights). I understand the oblivion interpretation, but I like to hear this song in a different light.īeing a college student on the verge of graduation, I see myself in this song. that's why his lyrics have to 'hit the body' and get it to move, as he has stated. he's not nearly so critical of things in society as he is always LEADING and UPLIFTING to a higher elevation, spiritually, physically and soulfully. He's saying that there's time to work it out.within ourselves.and reassures us that, 'it's all right'īyrne is a very POSITIVE and upbeat person. the ride to paradise within (the road to nowhere.no literal place.but rather the journey we must take internally) The city is growing, because the 'evangelical' songster is cracking the whip to awaken more souls who will come along on the ride. The city (paradise) is within me.not a literal city out there
The road to nowhere is a road that doesn't go begins and ends in ME Paradise is down a certain road.but it's not 's HERE, INSIDE but, like a cattle driver, he is cracking a whip trying to get the audience to GET MOVING ALONG THAT PATH. he's trying to wake others up.to take that ride.there's TIME.but you don't really have to GO ANYWHERE. it's absolutely about the road to PARADISE, and few that are able to wake up out of the rigid, politically correct, broad road that everyone takes. I don't think that this is about the road to OBLIVION at all. He longs not to be part of this world and its unquenchable desires, but realizes he is also human and part of the collective insanity.īilocational shamanism. He can envision a different path, or a non-path, a movement off the road: "There's a city in my mind, come along and take that ride." He is one of them and not at the same time. The narrator is part and apart of the travelers's journey on the road to nowhere. The other voice takes the role of the traveler on the road.
The narrator takes the skeptical, outsider approach of one who has the wisdom to see the folly of pursuit. One at the beginning and end, the voice of the narrator, and another in the middle, the voice of those on the road to nowhere, those who believe that "We're on the road to paradise." There are two voices in this song, almost doppelgangers. Misery loves company, and all of us on the road to nowhere invite others to join us, and we assimilate them into our pointless, miserable journey that ends in death and nothingness. The plebes/proles endure a Sisyphean slog through life, straining towards some goal on the horizon that never materializes. I realize the video is not the song, but the video makes it obvious. The real "road to nowhere" is the domination and destruction of the planet by our species. But it's growing day by day and it's all rightīut they'll make a fool of you and it's all right
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