mmmmm, well, that post by Derek was from before my time (on the newsgroup). I'm afraid I can't completely agree, however; the interpretation of the individual lines is much as I would have said (but I hadn't thought of that brilliant reference to King Lear), but I always thought of "Race" as about only one person not two. The "you" is not a second person but himself. Try it that way and see what you think. Doesn't change the message at all, but maybe that is the way he meant it? "You" is often used to refer to oneself philosophically, and I happen to think that the description fits him to a "T". He always was the "restless" one. I think it is Lightfoot reflecting on his own life.
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