Probably one of my all time favourite songs. I must have sung every one of the Bee Gee's early albums to myself on many a long highway.
This one is the "Not waving but drowning" variety and as a young adolescent, I "Got it". You either do or you don't, I suppose and that's just the way it was with the Bee Gees and young folk.
If it's any consolation, "Staying' Alive" killed them. Ironical, ain't it?