This is most definitely my favorite song on the album. It's so full of passion and sadness, it really makes you feel it.
But after I heard it like the third time, I started to think about the meaning behind it.
I don't think it's necessarily a love song to someone as it is a "letter" to his fans. We've spent years tearing apart these songs, trying to find hidden meanings, we go to shows hoping they'll show us a clue. We've found out so much, but there's something that keeps us wondering. Don't you think Davey has secrets, like everybody else?
So I think this is really what this song is about: his secret that he's kept. Something so "explosive", meaning that it could break our hearts or something equally as dramatic. I think Davey really feels disconnected from the world, and there's a part of him that he has to hide from everyone. So when he says "Walk right through me, I'm not really there" and "If we meet, please avert your eyes", he means that we don't know his true self, and he can't show us. "The poison" he talks about, I think that means what we say, good and bad, and we change him because of it.
The thing that "should mean nothing to you" and "meant something to me" is, again, that secret. "I draped it in cold and in clarity", I think this means he's mentioned it before.
The end part about "a day gone away", I think this means we're getting closer to knowing. So Davey wrote the whole song as a warning, so we do find out whatever it is, it won't destroy us or what we think about him.
This is most definitely my favorite song on the album. It's so full of passion and sadness, it really makes you feel it. But after I heard it like the third time, I started to think about the meaning behind it. I don't think it's necessarily a love song to someone as it is a "letter" to his fans. We've spent years tearing apart these songs, trying to find hidden meanings, we go to shows hoping they'll show us a clue. We've found out so much, but there's something that keeps us wondering. Don't you think Davey has secrets, like everybody else? So I think this is really what this song is about: his secret that he's kept. Something so "explosive", meaning that it could break our hearts or something equally as dramatic. I think Davey really feels disconnected from the world, and there's a part of him that he has to hide from everyone. So when he says "Walk right through me, I'm not really there" and "If we meet, please avert your eyes", he means that we don't know his true self, and he can't show us. "The poison" he talks about, I think that means what we say, good and bad, and we change him because of it. The thing that "should mean nothing to you" and "meant something to me" is, again, that secret. "I draped it in cold and in clarity", I think this means he's mentioned it before. The end part about "a day gone away", I think this means we're getting closer to knowing. So Davey wrote the whole song as a warning, so we do find out whatever it is, it won't destroy us or what we think about him.