It's about him confessing that he's done trying with relationships and just wants to live his life out calmly and quietly on his own.
The first half is about him wanting a reoccuring dream, spawned from a memory he wants to relive and a time of his life he wants to go back to. Because now he's all torn and weathered and he just wants a simple life of working in a hardware store of being a construction worker, so he could sail through life and through his apartment and office windows and everything, just live easy. I don't think the sailing part is a metaphor though; he does dream it, but the dream of him sailing is spawned out of that desire.
The last half is him asking his mother if it's okay to cry because he feels like he goes to her when he's sad, and he goes to his dad when he's toughened up and ready to present himself. He wants to learn how to live life the right way, so he asks his dad since he admires his dad.
He doesn't want another relationship, a second chance at romance, even though all his songs say that he does. The FM radio part could either be him sitting in his car with the radio on but just zoning out and realizing all of this (music fading to static), or it could be him using FM radio as a way of meaning the songs he writes that blur into static. But either way, he realizes "he should have known". He knows he's different and not like everyone else, so he should have known he wouldn't end up happy like they all do. The intensity of this realization explains why the song is so emotional and is also sort of the closer to the album.
It's about him confessing that he's done trying with relationships and just wants to live his life out calmly and quietly on his own.
The first half is about him wanting a reoccuring dream, spawned from a memory he wants to relive and a time of his life he wants to go back to. Because now he's all torn and weathered and he just wants a simple life of working in a hardware store of being a construction worker, so he could sail through life and through his apartment and office windows and everything, just live easy. I don't think the sailing part is a metaphor though; he does dream it, but the dream of him sailing is spawned out of that desire.
The last half is him asking his mother if it's okay to cry because he feels like he goes to her when he's sad, and he goes to his dad when he's toughened up and ready to present himself. He wants to learn how to live life the right way, so he asks his dad since he admires his dad.
He doesn't want another relationship, a second chance at romance, even though all his songs say that he does. The FM radio part could either be him sitting in his car with the radio on but just zoning out and realizing all of this (music fading to static), or it could be him using FM radio as a way of meaning the songs he writes that blur into static. But either way, he realizes "he should have known". He knows he's different and not like everyone else, so he should have known he wouldn't end up happy like they all do. The intensity of this realization explains why the song is so emotional and is also sort of the closer to the album.