The children wait for special occasions like birthdays to feel happy because they need to train hard to learn to live apathetically like their seniors, when they grow up. He tells us how authority figures like teachers train children to practice and help them accustom to the monotonous and hectic lifestyle. The third stanza takes us back to the protagonist's childhood.
" finally, he calls such a world -very, very mad world. However, at the same time, he also finds it funny because people are aware that all their struggle and chase for satisfaction and happiness is leading them to vanity but they keep on surrendering themselves to their -daily races" in which they -run in circles. The lines -the dreams in which i'm dying" and -are the best I ever had" refer to his only way out. He feels sad because he does not find any other escape except death. The chorus reveals how ironic the protagonist feels about such a society where all the longing for satisfaction and hopes for change and happiness are meaningless because nothing such as -true happiness" or -ultimate satisfaction" really exists.
Thus, he does not want to see the same old -tomorrow" that is no different than yesterday or today. The character despises what he sees and desperately wants to break free. In doing so, they repress all their feelings and emotions and their faces seem apathetic. At the end of the day, they are all exhausted but nothing significant is achieved, yet, they surrender themselves to such lifestyle everyday to fit into the bleak and hopeless society they have to live in. They act like machines programmed with a daily routine that they must follow, no matter what. He finds their lifestyle monotonous and hectic. The first stanza starts off explaining what the protagonist notices about the people around him every day. Look right through me, look right through me Children waiting for the day they feel goodĪnd I feel the way that every child should
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