The song doesn't come across as pessimistic to me, instead calm and peaceful, as if the character realizes the inevitability of the demise of both himself and his world, and chooses to embrace it, treating it with an almost matter-of-factly attitude, in the face of apocalypse.
The song doesn't come across as pessimistic to me, instead calm and peaceful, as if the character realizes the inevitability of the demise of both himself and his world, and chooses to embrace it, treating it with an almost matter-of-factly attitude, in the face of apocalypse.