The song expresses feelings of frustration and confusion over the state of the world. The singer has been trying for 25 years to make progress up the "great big hill of hope" toward some destination or resolution, but has not yet found it. They cry in bed to relieve the thoughts and feelings in their head, and wake up feeling peculiar. They then go outside, take a deep breath, feel real high, and scream the lyrics' refrain of "What's going on?" to express their questioning of the world.
The song expresses feelings of frustration and confusion over the state of the world. The singer has been trying for 25 years to make progress up the "great big hill of hope" toward some destination or resolution, but has not yet found it. They cry in bed to relieve the thoughts and feelings in their head, and wake up feeling peculiar. They then go outside, take a deep breath, feel real high, and scream the lyrics' refrain of "What's going on?" to express their questioning of the world.
The song expresses feelings of frustration and confusion over the state of the world. The singer has been trying for 25 years to make progress up the "great big hill of hope" toward some destination or resolution, but has not yet found it. They cry in bed to relieve the thoughts and feelings in their head, and wake up feeling peculiar. They then go outside, take a deep breath, feel real high, and scream the lyrics' refrain of "What's going on?" to express their questioning of the world.
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