One of my personel favourites both musically and lyrically. Created around that sorrowful piano sound this melancholic number does generate a feeling of reflective sadness which is echoed in the lyric.
I guess we end "This Painted Pantomime" kind of how we started, but with a more reflective and more somber take on the theme that came about with "Panorama". It's a question of learning to live together to survive, to introduce ourselves to one another's cultures and views, to try to tolerate them, to start acting as a family, to learn to integrate.
We clog our lives up with so much religion, politics and patriotic rhetoric which, although designed to help us, only seem to put more problems in our way, which only stand to fortify our differences and become banners and slogans to justify our narrow mindedness.