this song is about telling someone you will never live up to an impossible standard. the secret he was never supposed to tell is that there is no perfect, right or wrong, everybody's right, everybody wins. everyone is perfect just the way they are, but we have a impossible standard we try to live by, and when we remind ourselves that we do not live by this impossible standard we fall from grace in our head, which leads to living in sorrow. the chorus tells us, everybody's waiting for that something they can hold onto while tripping over our own words to self dug graves for an excuse to fall, cause every failure's just as sweet as the last. everyone is trying to reach their destination, but the destination is in the journey. when you reach your "destination" you realize that the journey itself was the destination, which also comes back to what i was saying before about reaching this unrealistic impossible destination. the self dug grave is the one you make for yourself when you have the standard in your head, and the excuse to fall (into the grave) is being unable to live up to the standard.
this song is about telling someone you will never live up to an impossible standard. the secret he was never supposed to tell is that there is no perfect, right or wrong, everybody's right, everybody wins. everyone is perfect just the way they are, but we have a impossible standard we try to live by, and when we remind ourselves that we do not live by this impossible standard we fall from grace in our head, which leads to living in sorrow. the chorus tells us, everybody's waiting for that something they can hold onto while tripping over our own words to self dug graves for an excuse to fall, cause every failure's just as sweet as the last. everyone is trying to reach their destination, but the destination is in the journey. when you reach your "destination" you realize that the journey itself was the destination, which also comes back to what i was saying before about reaching this unrealistic impossible destination. the self dug grave is the one you make for yourself when you have the standard in your head, and the excuse to fall (into the grave) is being unable to live up to the standard.