This song is about the deadness of life sometimes in my opinion. He's making his way through days that just pass and seem to have no point other than to take time. There isn't any love or passion waking him up in the mornings telling him to go and live life to the last ounce.
He remembers the days that he spends chasing some naive dream, probably recollected from long ago, and dusted off to simply give him something to believe in again, but it never lasts. He tries to pretend that tomorrow it will change and turn out alright still.
The end of the song is a sort of resignation, and I think something we all find out eventually. The character starts by seeing the beauty of a tree covered in fresh rain but the slow depression coils its way around him still, even in the face of such an image. The character pulls back from himself and finally sees how insignificant it all really is now. He sees himself standing there next to that tree, hardly moving, hardly a quiver in the dirt, and realizes his own insignificance. It's not an awful realization, in my opinion, just the knowledge that no matter how much it hurts, it's still only a day passing amongst a thousand of them.
The song is supposed to embody the spirit of those rainy days you spend watching out your window wondering how it all went wrong. You wonder why you still wake up daily when there's no great love in your life. What carries your soul when there's nothing around to pick it up?
This song is about the deadness of life sometimes in my opinion. He's making his way through days that just pass and seem to have no point other than to take time. There isn't any love or passion waking him up in the mornings telling him to go and live life to the last ounce. He remembers the days that he spends chasing some naive dream, probably recollected from long ago, and dusted off to simply give him something to believe in again, but it never lasts. He tries to pretend that tomorrow it will change and turn out alright still. The end of the song is a sort of resignation, and I think something we all find out eventually. The character starts by seeing the beauty of a tree covered in fresh rain but the slow depression coils its way around him still, even in the face of such an image. The character pulls back from himself and finally sees how insignificant it all really is now. He sees himself standing there next to that tree, hardly moving, hardly a quiver in the dirt, and realizes his own insignificance. It's not an awful realization, in my opinion, just the knowledge that no matter how much it hurts, it's still only a day passing amongst a thousand of them. The song is supposed to embody the spirit of those rainy days you spend watching out your window wondering how it all went wrong. You wonder why you still wake up daily when there's no great love in your life. What carries your soul when there's nothing around to pick it up?