As far as I have ever thought, and granted I may be wrong, and all interpretations are personal for each listener... but this is about a friend who committed suicide, and the singer "misses him so". The first attempt didn't work.
The "floating island" could be a hospital bed, or a neardeath experience, floating above his body, or even seeing the light at the end of a tunnel/heaven/clouds/floating islands... but "the phone rang off the hook". That is a LOT of ringing, for a LONG time. Someone trying to call him, perhaps, getting worried, going over there and finding him or something, maybe. Or it could just mean that his friends around the hospital bed were calling him back, and he heard them and "came back home". I've heard of all those type of things happening to people who have neardeath experiences.
Anyway... to the biggest point, and to me, what is the most obvious evidence of my theory...
"Second time he ran away-
left the bathtub running over,
stereo on and cooking bacon
Never came back to tell us why"
That to me is very very clear. Bathtub running over, and the stereo on. Obviously, (to me), Hot Cha decided to drop a plugged-in stereo into the bath with him. And he never told anyone why.
But again, that's just my personal interpretation.
As far as I have ever thought, and granted I may be wrong, and all interpretations are personal for each listener... but this is about a friend who committed suicide, and the singer "misses him so". The first attempt didn't work.
The "floating island" could be a hospital bed, or a neardeath experience, floating above his body, or even seeing the light at the end of a tunnel/heaven/clouds/floating islands... but "the phone rang off the hook". That is a LOT of ringing, for a LONG time. Someone trying to call him, perhaps, getting worried, going over there and finding him or something, maybe. Or it could just mean that his friends around the hospital bed were calling him back, and he heard them and "came back home". I've heard of all those type of things happening to people who have neardeath experiences.
Anyway... to the biggest point, and to me, what is the most obvious evidence of my theory...
"Second time he ran away- left the bathtub running over, stereo on and cooking bacon Never came back to tell us why"
That to me is very very clear. Bathtub running over, and the stereo on. Obviously, (to me), Hot Cha decided to drop a plugged-in stereo into the bath with him. And he never told anyone why.
But again, that's just my personal interpretation.