This song is about those nights when you feel like "love has had its day and it's way" with you. You don't give a damn about anything, but you also know there's no victory in the pain you feel. In the "desert" of relationships, the nights are always cold. In the darkness, you hope you can lose yourself such that it might be possible to start over. But then comes the bridge of the song; Ed proposes that the only real way to get through these situations is to center yourself (spiritually). You've got to consider how every painful memory from the past arises into the present moment and then falls into the future. No matter how much you say you "don't care," meditation on this simple theme of the dependent origination of all moments can guide you through the "desert" -- whatever that may be.
This song is about those nights when you feel like "love has had its day and it's way" with you. You don't give a damn about anything, but you also know there's no victory in the pain you feel. In the "desert" of relationships, the nights are always cold. In the darkness, you hope you can lose yourself such that it might be possible to start over. But then comes the bridge of the song; Ed proposes that the only real way to get through these situations is to center yourself (spiritually). You've got to consider how every painful memory from the past arises into the present moment and then falls into the future. No matter how much you say you "don't care," meditation on this simple theme of the dependent origination of all moments can guide you through the "desert" -- whatever that may be.