Justin Hayward is singing about the toils of everyday life getting in the way of people being able to share their love, and spend all their time together. Having to work, or spend time doing what we feel we have to do, stops peoples relationships from coming to full fruition.
Dear diary, what a day it's been.
Dear diary, it's been just like a dream.
Woke up late. Wasn't where I should have been
These dudes were doing acid, and if not, singing to it. He may mean he wasn't where he should have been because he was tripping, and pondering human nature.
