This could further imply he’s an old man, somebody who’s out lived all of their friends and has nobody to look after or help them. The singer himself is a lonely person, somebody who has no friends, or even a boss or co-worker to meet. Regardless of how, or why, he’s weary, he is weary nonetheless and it shows. He could be old and near death, he could be weary mentally, from everything he’s had to endure. His reason for being tired could be anything. It shows how out of touch he is with his youthfulness, he’s always tired. When the singer notices how aged he is, how weary he is, he finds it hard to imagine, he’s amazed by it. The next half of the quotation, “My weariness amazes me, I’m branded on my feet I have no one to meet And the ancient empty street’s too dead for dreaming” attempts to highlight the singer’s lost abilities and youthfulness. The fact he’s not sleeping implies that this is all definitely real, not just a dream, which could hint at the singer not being able to cope with this new reality, but it could also show his wakefulness and how he is still restless and wants to move on in life he doesn’t want to be trapped in this lost and blinded feeling. It implies the youthfulness has been lost to time.įinally, when the singer is left blinded but not sleeping, he is saying that he is lost in this post-youthfulness world which is why he is blind, as he cannot see which way he, or his life are going now. Sand holds connotations of time, being used in phrases like “sand of time” and also in hourglasses. The evening symbolises the last moments of child-like youthfulness, which are so far distant that is has vanished from the singer ever being able to have that youthfulness again. These first five lines, “though I know that evenin’s empire has returned into sand, vanished from my hand, left me blindly here to stand but still not sleeping”, convey the singer’s mourning over the loss of their childhood. Despite how beautiful all of these lyrics sound, the message behind them only contains sorrow, longing and misery.
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