Logical
Supertramp's 'The Logical Song' has always felt like a reckoning to me.
It traces a familiar journey: from a curious, imaginative beginning into a version of adulthood that prizes being 'logical', 'responsible', and 'practical'. None of those qualities are wrong, but something essential gets traded along the way.
Listening now, what stands out isn’t rebellion so much as disorientation. The sense of becoming competent, organised, and externally functional, while gradually losing contact with something more alive and unnameable underneath.
The question the song leaves hanging isn’t how did this happen? It’s what did I give up without realising?
Midlife often brings that question back. Not as nostalgia, but as a quiet invitation to re‑listen.