I'd initially thought of this song as being just about growing old - worrying about health, "did you notice when you began to disappear" could be like Alzheimers or senility or something, or "did half of you pass away" could be like an old person's wife or husband dying. But then with the video, and the "from the here and now to eternity" (From here to eternity being a film and novel about the second world war) made me think of it in another way - it could be about the veterans of the world wars growing old and dying. The lines about "when you listen to yourself does it feel like somebody else" could refer to them thinking how much they've changed, from being young soldiers in a different world, to old people in the modern day.
I'd initially thought of this song as being just about growing old - worrying about health, "did you notice when you began to disappear" could be like Alzheimers or senility or something, or "did half of you pass away" could be like an old person's wife or husband dying. But then with the video, and the "from the here and now to eternity" (From here to eternity being a film and novel about the second world war) made me think of it in another way - it could be about the veterans of the world wars growing old and dying. The lines about "when you listen to yourself does it feel like somebody else" could refer to them thinking how much they've changed, from being young soldiers in a different world, to old people in the modern day.