identity. wolves and shadows are really appealing (dark, mysterious, stealthy) nouns, and it's even more appealing to pose as or become either. shadow just happens to be the narrator's choice in the end, despite it's cool factor: he is only an identity after these declarations, but he was even worse off before.
what's really going on here? what's in his head, what matters in how he portrays himself.
one day's the outer world's going to wash his feigned humility, his created identity away, revealing the nothing he began with.
the first verse defines what matters in that outer, a clue the narrator knew he should have paid attention to before. the 'it'.
identity. wolves and shadows are really appealing (dark, mysterious, stealthy) nouns, and it's even more appealing to pose as or become either. shadow just happens to be the narrator's choice in the end, despite it's cool factor: he is only an identity after these declarations, but he was even worse off before.
what's really going on here? what's in his head, what matters in how he portrays himself.
one day's the outer world's going to wash his feigned humility, his created identity away, revealing the nothing he began with.
the first verse defines what matters in that outer, a clue the narrator knew he should have paid attention to before. the 'it'.