Wow, Geckat, maybe I'm way off but I'm pretty much seeing this in the opposite way as you. This song seems to me to be about the redemptive power of love: He's made a giant mess of his life, depressed, alone, closed off, etc.--and then he meets "the one" and everything changes. ("Then one day, I was not alone, everything had changed," etc.)
Wow, Geckat, maybe I'm way off but I'm pretty much seeing this in the opposite way as you. This song seems to me to be about the redemptive power of love: He's made a giant mess of his life, depressed, alone, closed off, etc.--and then he meets "the one" and everything changes. ("Then one day, I was not alone, everything had changed," etc.)