I've just listened to Steve Wilson's interview on BBC Radio 6 (Bruce Dickinson's program; it might still be available for streaming - the interview starts at 21:15).
Sleep Together is played there, and SW says that he conceived the song as a "slightly happy ending". He goes on to say that the song was meant to say that an escape was after all possible, but he was deliberately vague. So it's possible that it's suicide after all, although in this context I can hardly see it as a happy ending.
Interesting.
I've just listened to Steve Wilson's interview on BBC Radio 6 (Bruce Dickinson's program; it might still be available for streaming - the interview starts at 21:15).
Sleep Together is played there, and SW says that he conceived the song as a "slightly happy ending". He goes on to say that the song was meant to say that an escape was after all possible, but he was deliberately vague. So it's possible that it's suicide after all, although in this context I can hardly see it as a happy ending.