This is probably nuts but to me it reads like a father who was never around, who abandoned her mum, and she remembered him as being this lovely amazing man and now he seems smaller (more pathetic) and younger (more childish) and all the things he told her are obviously lies now but it doesn\'t matter any more they may as well be true. Who\'s going to call her means that her mum has either moved on or is dead now.\n\n(I don\'t know anything about Spektor\'s life, I literally just heard the song in A Castle For Christmas an hour ago and found it enchanting and then found out it was written by the writer of my favourite Christmas song, My Dear Acquaintance.)\n\nYou retired just when you were about to be fired is like he left but he was about to become unnecessary anyway because he caused this distance between him and her or him and her mum.
This is probably nuts but to me it reads like a father who was never around, who abandoned her mum, and she remembered him as being this lovely amazing man and now he seems smaller (more pathetic) and younger (more childish) and all the things he told her are obviously lies now but it doesn\'t matter any more they may as well be true. Who\'s going to call her means that her mum has either moved on or is dead now.\n\n(I don\'t know anything about Spektor\'s life, I literally just heard the song in A Castle For Christmas an hour ago and found it enchanting and then found out it was written by the writer of my favourite Christmas song, My Dear Acquaintance.)\n\nYou retired just when you were about to be fired is like he left but he was about to become unnecessary anyway because he caused this distance between him and her or him and her mum.