the kinks - waterloo sunset

i agree with toy all here the song is extremely linguistik ray davies is a verry good words smith .i also think tour dwelving too deep into sugestive wording ,the song was origionaly liverpool sunset on acount of the daveis brothers both came form there and ar remernising on there times there HENSE the nastalgik feel perhaps ??

perfect

Das waren schone Zeiten da werden Erinnerrungen wach

caught a love buzz scalp tingle off this

I don't know if I'd take it as far as "existential meaninglessness," but it's a great song even if you don't try to read your personal philosophy into it.

There are a number of hints to this existential meaninglessness especially in the reference to the people swarming like flies.This is reference to the rushing about without taking the time to seek the meaning of their actions.The observer of the sunset is then juxtaposing the wonderful, meaningfully beautiful sunset with the people below it. He then shows that even though he is not doing anything just " being" is enough. He can still find meaning in the beauty of the sunset,his "paradise".

unless you wrote the song, you don't know what anything is alluding to. i think you're reading into the song very subjectively and being overly scrutinous. I don't find the song so strictly defined, and see the lyrics as a simple narrative to carry us through the melody, ultimately leaving us with a vague feeling of bittersweet nostalgia.
To each his own; that's the true beauty of a song like this.

The beatles wrote songs like that but I think this song was telling a story about the discovery of beauty and meaning as being something that transcends the meaningless rushing about working and buying and eating.I am not trying to define the song at all just putting a view forward.The song is special and it does make you think about life and I think it is deeper than the usual popular song.I think it is more than bittersweet nostalgia. Te best songs do cause us to read into the song subjectivel

The Beatles never came close to this level of profundity and beauty.