The maritime themes of this top-40 hit by Grand Funk Railroad from the fall of 1970 are but elaborate metaphors for the dilemmas surrounding one's sense of control over one's own existence, and over one's life overall.
Your life is your "ship", and as the "captain" how well your "ship" sails and functions depend on the loyalty and cooperation of your "crew" (the elements that make up or interact with your existence), which can be everything from your family and relatives to your associates to your own body functions to even the possessions you own or the facilities you use or do business with in some way.
You depend on each of these factions being on good terms with and favorable towards you. But there are occasions where you can very well experience incidences of "mutiny" (bad blood, bad health, defective or worn-out items malfunctioning on you, corruption in the family or work place or community or certain businesses).
It's during times of duress, dysfunction, precariousness, and animosities that we, as the "captain" cry out to the world to "return command of" our "ship" to us, the one's who rightfully should be the ones in control (of our own lives).
Your life is your "ship", and as the "captain" how well your "ship" sails and functions depend on the loyalty and cooperation of your "crew" (the elements that make up or interact with your existence), which can be everything from your family and relatives to your associates to your own body functions to even the possessions you own or the facilities you use or do business with in some way.
You depend on each of these factions being on good terms with and favorable towards you. But there are occasions where you can very well experience incidences of "mutiny" (bad blood, bad health, defective or worn-out items malfunctioning on you, corruption in the family or work place or community or certain businesses).
It's during times of duress, dysfunction, precariousness, and animosities that we, as the "captain" cry out to the world to "return command of" our "ship" to us, the one's who rightfully should be the ones in control (of our own lives).
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