Having listened to this song hundreds of times, I recently began to wonder about the white candle and for whom it might be lit. It made me think that the entire song may be about the protagonist lighting a white candle for his deceased love, the green-eyed girl, who perhaps committed suicide, whom he now imagines follows him around on new year's.
Interpreting it that way, with the wisps of smoke following him down around the pier, him reminiscing of his dead love and wondering if she feels better now in the after-life, it really tears me apart.
Having listened to this song hundreds of times, I recently began to wonder about the white candle and for whom it might be lit. It made me think that the entire song may be about the protagonist lighting a white candle for his deceased love, the green-eyed girl, who perhaps committed suicide, whom he now imagines follows him around on new year's.
Interpreting it that way, with the wisps of smoke following him down around the pier, him reminiscing of his dead love and wondering if she feels better now in the after-life, it really tears me apart.