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Thriving Ivory – Flowers for a Ghost Lyrics 13 years ago
Like skullz, I thought this was about someone dying, but I interpreted it as the singer, not the girl.

You disappear with all your good intentions

She may have been at the funeral and trying to do the best she could (her good intentions), but now she's inaccessible to the singer since she's still living.

And all I am is all I could not mention

All that's left of him is the secrets he took to the grave, the things he left unsaid, what he never told her.

Like who will bring me flowers when it's over

Who will put flowers on his gravestone. Note that the song's title is "Flowers for a Ghost". This implies, as it is "who will bring ME flowers", that it is the singer who is the titular ghost.

And who will give me comfort when it's cold

Who will come and visit him, when his body's cold in the ground.

She took a plane to somewhere out in space
To start a life and maybe change the world

She's beginning to move on with her life.

See I never meant for you to have to crawl
No I never meant to let you go at all

He never wanted to make her suffer after his death and hurt because of the loss; he never meant to die.

Don't ever say goodbye

He doesn't want the girl to forget him.

See my head aches from all this thinkin'
Feels like a ship God, God knows I'm sinkin'
Wonder what you do and where it is you stay
These questions like a whirlwind, they carry me away

He wonders what the girl's life is like now.

Who will bring me flowers when it's over
And who will give me comfort when it’s cold

Again, now that the girl has moved on with her life, who will visit his grave, and who will remember him?

Who will I belong to when the day just won't give in
And who will tell me how it ends and how it all begins

Who will tell him what the world's like after died, and who will tell him what's to come?

Don't ever say goodbye

He doesn't want the girl to let him go.

I'm only human
I'm only human
I'm only human

He's acknowledging his mortality; he died; he's only human. That's what humans do. But the 'only' implies that he wishes he weren't and he could stay.

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