I think this is the most emotionally ripping song I've ever heard.
I took "the streets are jammed with cars/rockin their horns to race to the wire of the unfinished line" to mean that even with everything bad going on with his life everyone else still carries on as normal but they are unaware of their own mortality.
The rest of it, yeah without the prior knowlege (although some suspicion as I knew the album was written as a large amount of his family were dead/dying), I related to cancer or aids - something with quite a slow death giving the light time to fade :(
I think this is the most emotionally ripping song I've ever heard. I took "the streets are jammed with cars/rockin their horns to race to the wire of the unfinished line" to mean that even with everything bad going on with his life everyone else still carries on as normal but they are unaware of their own mortality. The rest of it, yeah without the prior knowlege (although some suspicion as I knew the album was written as a large amount of his family were dead/dying), I related to cancer or aids - something with quite a slow death giving the light time to fade :(