And it can seem Sometimes as if The entire world has lost its sense of humor, and that, depending on yr personality, can be a devastating discovery…and it can seem like “Life”, at least the GOOD part, is gone forever…but it’s not! We humans are taught to “put away childish things”, but for me, as well as many others I’m sure, when we first hear this in life, it’s like, “oh, I get it, the fun is over”. “Once I spent my time playing tough guy scenesīut I was living in a world of childish dreams. But then, those realities eventually come around to NEW realizations, makes me think of Springsteen’s ‘Two Hearts’: So, he’s facing some HARD truths, some uncomfortable realities… and as he thinks more and more deeply, and those “dark” truths about life & love create changes in his mind, SCARY changes, ones that make him feel as if he will never truly “connect” with another person in this world.
Night of the soul”, he’s at the end of a relationship - yet ANOTHER one, if the narrator’s really “reliable” - and it’s possibly a relationship that he’d had a lot of hopes/dreams tied up in, but now it’s over, and Neil’s feeling the strain. Neil’s narrator here is having what some might call a “dark Your statement that the song addresses, and “means”, that the only thing upon which you can depend in this world is yourself is true, but the song is more involved than that, I believe so anyway…
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