Clocks And Spoons

I thought it was a prison song. Applicable to depression/loneliness. Stuck in a cell with nothin but the clock draggin out. They don’t give you forks or knives because they can be too easily weaponized. The cell is empty cept for yourself The small window lets you curse the moon for being free. And you never see the sun no more.

I assumed the lyrics are from the point of view of someone who had already died and had become a spirit

This song is about the loneliness like I experienced after personal losses in my life, especially after my spouse of 30 years suddenly died…and every night you come home to empty rooms, looking at the dragging hands on the clocks, washing spoons after eating soup or cereal because you don’t bother cooking for just yourself. You just end the day seeing the face of the moon…which used to make you smile, but now you just want to shoot it and make it disappear, then turn out the lights in your empty room. What a way to end the day…lonely in the dark, without your loved one warmly near you. Don’t know where the time has gone, spent too much time looking for the dawn of better days…so now I want to run away back to the sunny countrysides of the life I lost and the life I miss…screaming in the pain of loneliness…take me back to sunny countrysides.

this song is about heroin addiction, i think he is talking about being removed from the real beauty of the world by drugs

I hadn't considered the heroine angle. I was thinking this was a song about depression