Huh for some reason I’d never considered that fact that the songwriter would have no idea what a star consisted of. Just a mysterious light in the sky.
Interesting, I think of the lyrics as describing the way a baby or toddler feels when looking at the stars. They don’t know what those bright lights are yet, they just know they’re shiny and too high up to reach.
I don’t expect children’s song writers have ever been sufficiently into science that they know about new discoveries that don’t matter to them at all quickly. I doubt many people knew even the top five elements that the sun consists of
I think it’s fair for them to wonder what a far away star was. They probably didn’t even know that the sun was a star
Hey buddy, they admitted they didn’t know what the star even was.
They thought it was made of carbon.
Huh for some reason I’d never considered that fact that the songwriter would have no idea what a star consisted of. Just a mysterious light in the sky.
Interesting, I think of the lyrics as describing the way a baby or toddler feels when looking at the stars. They don’t know what those bright lights are yet, they just know they’re shiny and too high up to reach.
Apparently the sun’s spectral absorption lines were discovered 4 years before the song was made
I don’t expect children’s song writers have ever been sufficiently into science that they know about new discoveries that don’t matter to them at all quickly. I doubt many people knew even the top five elements that the sun consists of
I think it’s fair for them to wonder what a far away star was. They probably didn’t even know that the sun was a star
Literally the next line.