To me, this song is about confiding to someone about pain which you've hidden away. "A part owner to my pain". This means that now you've told them, its is the burden of both of you.
It could be about the specific pain of not quite fitting in - selling your soul could refer, as ac666 said, to conforming, maybe changing your apparent personality to attempt to fit in with the people you are forced to associate with.
"I fought the world today - postpone my birth again" could mean that the situation, which could involve alot of friction, could be preventing, as I said before, from the real personality from emerging.
The "smile stretched on old trees" could refer to a facade put up by the person that the song is about, who up until confiding in another person, has pretended to be happy whilst being miserable underneath. This misery is described as a "pitiless wanderer". A wanderer, again is someone who does not fit in.
And finally, the chorus, I think in the light of what I have said is pretty self explanatory - a person in this situation just needs some sympathy.
To me, this song is about confiding to someone about pain which you've hidden away. "A part owner to my pain". This means that now you've told them, its is the burden of both of you. It could be about the specific pain of not quite fitting in - selling your soul could refer, as ac666 said, to conforming, maybe changing your apparent personality to attempt to fit in with the people you are forced to associate with. "I fought the world today - postpone my birth again" could mean that the situation, which could involve alot of friction, could be preventing, as I said before, from the real personality from emerging. The "smile stretched on old trees" could refer to a facade put up by the person that the song is about, who up until confiding in another person, has pretended to be happy whilst being miserable underneath. This misery is described as a "pitiless wanderer". A wanderer, again is someone who does not fit in. And finally, the chorus, I think in the light of what I have said is pretty self explanatory - a person in this situation just needs some sympathy.