It Could Have Been a Brilliant Career Lyrics

Lyric discussion by waltz 

Cover art for It Could Have Been a Brilliant Career lyrics by Belle & Sebastian

I think that the spoon is for when people get really old and weak and can't feed themselves, and that's why that one person has it, and the book is because they're bored being with a dying person that doesn't even want them there (one he sent away). I think that he is "sorry and resigned" because his realizes his life was a waste and he could have had "a brilliant career"