Of particular interest to me is a comment there by Don Grabon. He said:
This song took on a particular meaning for me when I switched majors from engineering to East Asian Studies rather late in my undergraduate career. Tied into that as well was a serious change in my religious life and my general outlook on what life is all about. It was a terribly difficult decision to clear with my friends, my family, and myself, but it was something I absolutely felt I had to do. I happened to pop the song into my CD player after finally building up the willpower to make the switch, and I pretty much stood there gaping I always understood the emotions in the song, but now I could really identify with them. All of a sudden the song was about my life. It was pretty powerful.
Just recently I realized that in my case, walking right out of the machinery takes both a figurative and a literal (i.e., getting away from engineering labs) meaning. kinda funky.
That is the same realisation that happens in divination, where the literally interpreted symbolism suddenly takes on a whole new meaning, because now it relates directly to you.
