High hopes explanation

Om yea, hello it's me again.
There's this line on High Hopes that i just can't get its meaning. could anyone help me? Thanks!

"Along the Long Road, and long down the Causeway, do they still meet there by the Cut"

Oh BTW, did anyone see the HH video?? it's pretty weird... i like the flags though! he

Om yea, listen, i gotta get outta here...

The Cut refers to the place in Cambridge (where Dave, Roger and Syd were raised from little babbies) where the local "drug dealers" would go about their business. According to "Echoes" book. The song itself is Dave reflecting on childhood, when everything was nice and cosy and well... innocent.

Exactly. The song is full of memories and symbols and it is also strictly related to Fat Old Sun, another song of Gilmour dealing with the same subjects, the transition from childood to maturity, Cambridge, and the same bell's sound in the air...

It sure is a reference to growing up in Cambridge.

There is a Long Road in Cambridge running from Addenbrookes Hospital to Trumpington. The Causeway refers to the Fen Causeway - another long road in Cambridge. Bells in the background are very similar to how one would hear the call to Evensong from Grantcheser Meadows. A haunting sound.
I assume "a world of magnets and miracles" refers to the University ... but that is an assumption ...

It's mainly Mr. Gilmour ruminating on past glories.

Very sad song.