This song is indeed gorgeous, and it's also one of the darkest songs he's ever written. I think this song is about fantasizing about death. He goes there with a friend, and thinks of death as peace, worldly sounds of endless warring being silenced for the dead, and he smiles as he leaves thinking about being at peace in death. Pretty cynical... but haven't you been there? where you'd rather it was all over?
This song is indeed gorgeous, and it's also one of the darkest songs he's ever written. I think this song is about fantasizing about death. He goes there with a friend, and thinks of death as peace, worldly sounds of endless warring being silenced for the dead, and he smiles as he leaves thinking about being at peace in death. Pretty cynical... but haven't you been there? where you'd rather it was all over?