Is this song about Bryan's dad or something. It seems like he's trying to reach out to his dad or something because didn't his dad didn't appreciate or something.
Is this song about Bryan's dad or something. It seems like he's trying to reach out to his dad or something because didn't his dad didn't appreciate or something.
I think of him as a kind of Father Time figure....wandering the Earth for eternity and uniquely gifted with wisdom.
If only we would see him (Old Man)....the gift (wisdom) is there for the taking; we just need to accept it.
Some think the "OLD MAN" is Arthur, but I can't see Bryan writing a song like that about Arthur, especially with the way their relationship had gone down hill so quickly by then.
Arthur certainly had a kind of "old man" wisdom in his music & lyrics at that tender age.
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We are raised to honor all the wrong explorers & discoverers- -thieves planting flags, murderers carrying crosses. Let us at last praise the colonizers of dreams.