from my interpretation this song is about isolation. It doesn't seem to be a thing that's willed, it just follows, almost like a choice to pick up your cross and go where you're lead. The "lace" line is referring to the intricacy yet complication of life and getting lost in it all. Almost like he's looking around at what's before him, but he has to turn his back on it and "close the door" and trudge through the desolation, isolation because if he didn't he'd be living a "half life" not knowing what's on the other side...it's a choice: in one hand, be surrounded, but half live, or in the other be isolated, but find true life. That's just what i picture :)
from my interpretation this song is about isolation. It doesn't seem to be a thing that's willed, it just follows, almost like a choice to pick up your cross and go where you're lead. The "lace" line is referring to the intricacy yet complication of life and getting lost in it all. Almost like he's looking around at what's before him, but he has to turn his back on it and "close the door" and trudge through the desolation, isolation because if he didn't he'd be living a "half life" not knowing what's on the other side...it's a choice: in one hand, be surrounded, but half live, or in the other be isolated, but find true life. That's just what i picture :)