Yes, this song is about a long-distance relationship, but it does speak to something more complicated.
I think it also conveys--not just the torment of distance in a relationship--but the pain of how peoples lives go different ways over time, and more often than not those different ways are apart. How you can share so much with a person but life carries you in different directions, and can leave a different taste in different mouths. (To me, that's what the autobiography line addresses.) I think the song is ultimately about the futility one can feel in the face of that.
To me, that is the complexity that makes this song so haunting.
Yes, this song is about a long-distance relationship, but it does speak to something more complicated.
I think it also conveys--not just the torment of distance in a relationship--but the pain of how peoples lives go different ways over time, and more often than not those different ways are apart. How you can share so much with a person but life carries you in different directions, and can leave a different taste in different mouths. (To me, that's what the autobiography line addresses.) I think the song is ultimately about the futility one can feel in the face of that.
To me, that is the complexity that makes this song so haunting.