I agree with Stranded that there's more than one interpretation. For whatever reason someone they love is no longer there. And although what they want to do is just curl up and die, the world doesn't work like that and everything just carries on going. But at the same time, although they're carrying on as well, none of it is meaningful, which is why they feel like they're "standing still" and that all the hope and joy in the world is gone: "the day is gone"
I remember when my friend died, looking out the window and there were these children walking home from school and thinking "they don't know that my world has just fallen apart". For them, and for most people in the world, life was just the same as when they woke up that morning. I feel like that's a big part of this song, that life doesn't stop just because something awful has happened to you.
I agree with Stranded that there's more than one interpretation. For whatever reason someone they love is no longer there. And although what they want to do is just curl up and die, the world doesn't work like that and everything just carries on going. But at the same time, although they're carrying on as well, none of it is meaningful, which is why they feel like they're "standing still" and that all the hope and joy in the world is gone: "the day is gone"
I remember when my friend died, looking out the window and there were these children walking home from school and thinking "they don't know that my world has just fallen apart". For them, and for most people in the world, life was just the same as when they woke up that morning. I feel like that's a big part of this song, that life doesn't stop just because something awful has happened to you.