Swing low in a dark glass hour = time is running short, it's late, the middle of the night and depression sets in

You turn and cower
See it turn to dust = be brave, go through with it or else all your plans will come to nothing

Move on a stone dark night
We take to flight
Snowfall turns to rust = Leaving the illusions thrust upon us by others and making you own way

Seam in a fusing mine
Like a nursing rhyme = Using a new creative approach to bring down those who have power over
Fat man starts to fall you

Year in a hostile place = should have been "5 years in a hostile place" but didn't scan, the face
I hear your face represents freedom
Start to call

And if you think that I've been losing my way = should be easy to understand
That's because I'm slightly blinded,
And if you think that I don't make too much sense
That's because I'm broken minded
Don't keep it...
Inside
If you believe it
Don't keep it all inside

Strong words in a ganges sky = ganges sky represents the prison the writer wishes to escape from, when
I have to lie you look up from a prison yard the sky is still blue, I have to lie and
Shadows move in pairs shadows move in pairs reflect the day to day living in the hostile place,
the word shadows is a reference to Plato's cave where the day to day
reality is but a shadow of genuine truth

Ring out from the bruised postcard = bad news came on a post card which was painful to read
In the shooting yard the shooting yard is quite literally the place where the firing squad
Looking through the tears plied its trade, the tears are cracks in the wall through which the
outside world can be seen but not participated in.

Out on the black slate time = hard labour with the promise of an end which will never really come
We move in line
But never reach an end

Fall in a long stray town = Once more a reference to the mutability of the day to day world, there
As the ice comes down is a Godforsaken town in Scotland called "Long Town" it is rootless like
Rivers start to bend a stray dog, a hellish place to be trapped. However just North of Long
Town are mountains from which the glaciers descended during the
last ice age, the glacier actually altered the course of rivers which
were pushed onto a different course, if rivers can be bent then
anything can be changed, no matter how bad it is or apparently
strong it is.

And if you think that I've been losing my way
That's because I'm slightly blinded,
And if you think that I don't make too much sense
That's because I'm broken minded
Don't keep it...
Inside
If you believe it
Don't keep it all inside