Lyric discussion by HaveAGreenDay 

...this song is excellent few have done interpretations on this song..everyone loves it and feels it relates..but relate to what.. in my opinion it means a lot of thing..but obsessed with the song i heard it a lot...the ending 'noises' to me described the previous lyrics but in a different form..listen to those noises carefully..you will soon discover how significant it is to the whole feeling the song gives. the noise is a bunch of up's and down's, it works with your emotions, crescendo's and decrescendo's create a sick effect. i thought that the song was about someone that he truly loved had fallen into in a coma. or some kind of permanent state .immobilized. before the sick person came to be that way the relationship was headed downhill..now that this problem has come over he has returned to say his last words before the end. i feel that he loved her more thatn she loved him. she's asleep again the way she's always been to him..more or less unresponsive. the truth is: he can't help her. and hearing the rain and stuff is just reminiscent of old memories trying to overcome the amnesia and remind this person about the past. now that it's over he can finally tell her that together they are whole and she will be with him forever(spiritually) then the noises come in..it sounds like it's in someone who is in a state of shock or coma's head. it sounds like what they would hypothetically hear. the noises sound like a disease. the begining of the noise to me sounds like the persons life...it's still the song but soon turns the the diseaseor accident, it where the sound changes to an eerier sound,those loud noises that sound like something is approching are people moving around in the room, listenening on.. you hear voices..as if she heard the last few words,then the sharp scream like noises are pain, the last singing part are when the persons dies; sorta like the funeral service.the clock-like sound is time running out, and lastly the marching/clock sound is the burial/ending of a life and begging or continuation of another...now that i write all of this out and read other views i dont feel my view is correct...but it's only an opinion.(s0rry its sooo long)

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