I know this song ties into the concept, but I think it clearly has to deal with a man who had become cold and bitter (first two lines) and experiences a new "morning on earth" when he falls in love with this woman (She?). Being full of negativity, though, has become such a part of him that he's having trouble letting go and "breaking this crust" to find the inner child within him. Thst's why apart of him aches when he's with her ("Strange, the way beauty can hurt the unopened eye
Much more than all of the filth and pain
That we're soaked in ever could") He feels like a burden on her shoulders until the end, where ultimately he has a revelation that He was "born to love" and could leave his past behind him.
I know this song ties into the concept, but I think it clearly has to deal with a man who had become cold and bitter (first two lines) and experiences a new "morning on earth" when he falls in love with this woman (She?). Being full of negativity, though, has become such a part of him that he's having trouble letting go and "breaking this crust" to find the inner child within him. Thst's why apart of him aches when he's with her ("Strange, the way beauty can hurt the unopened eye Much more than all of the filth and pain That we're soaked in ever could") He feels like a burden on her shoulders until the end, where ultimately he has a revelation that He was "born to love" and could leave his past behind him.