I agree that the part about addict with no heroin seems to be used as a metaphor not literally. And I also agree that the song does have a strong feeling of depression, anxiety and dread. But other than that I think the song is really up to interpretation.
To me it's about someone who is miserable and trapped, unable to connect with those around him. Surrounded by negative emotions. Too much! And the burn my knees part I never understood. Watching the video the parts about the boy, face dead on the beach with knee braces unable to get up really seemed to be a metaphor for the guy's childhood self. Who was somehow crippled emotionally which is shown by the knee braces. He is unable to get up. He keeps screaming to get up. Won't you stop my pain. He is trapped in misery, hopelessness "everything is clearly dying".
People around him he is convinced have "distorted eyes" and can't see how terrible and hopeless and cruel it all is. In the video he is sitting on the couch at a party and someone has put a glass over a moth to trap it. He is watching the moth and he looks around at people having a good time. He feels trapped because he is unable to connect socially. He thinks of a bird trapped trying to fly out and he is able to relate more easily to it then the moth but through it all he still relates to that moth trapped so he frees it in sympathy and feeling he understands being trapped. A woman is sad and looking at him. And its like he can feel her pain and it is too much. He drowns alone in his misery. But really he is just alone in the room on the bed. He stands alone at the window of his apartment and there is only rain falling over his window. Because inside his emotional cage it is raining and misery but outside it isn't.
At the end of the video he is on the train and his eyes seem vacant and like he is somewhere else and kind of numb. He is not in pain.. so much as before. He sees person in the seat near him and he looks sort of strange. And then you see that he is going through the same miserable thing but he is too lost in his own problems to see it.
I agree that the part about addict with no heroin seems to be used as a metaphor not literally. And I also agree that the song does have a strong feeling of depression, anxiety and dread. But other than that I think the song is really up to interpretation.
To me it's about someone who is miserable and trapped, unable to connect with those around him. Surrounded by negative emotions. Too much! And the burn my knees part I never understood. Watching the video the parts about the boy, face dead on the beach with knee braces unable to get up really seemed to be a metaphor for the guy's childhood self. Who was somehow crippled emotionally which is shown by the knee braces. He is unable to get up. He keeps screaming to get up. Won't you stop my pain. He is trapped in misery, hopelessness "everything is clearly dying".
People around him he is convinced have "distorted eyes" and can't see how terrible and hopeless and cruel it all is. In the video he is sitting on the couch at a party and someone has put a glass over a moth to trap it. He is watching the moth and he looks around at people having a good time. He feels trapped because he is unable to connect socially. He thinks of a bird trapped trying to fly out and he is able to relate more easily to it then the moth but through it all he still relates to that moth trapped so he frees it in sympathy and feeling he understands being trapped. A woman is sad and looking at him. And its like he can feel her pain and it is too much. He drowns alone in his misery. But really he is just alone in the room on the bed. He stands alone at the window of his apartment and there is only rain falling over his window. Because inside his emotional cage it is raining and misery but outside it isn't.
At the end of the video he is on the train and his eyes seem vacant and like he is somewhere else and kind of numb. He is not in pain.. so much as before. He sees person in the seat near him and he looks sort of strange. And then you see that he is going through the same miserable thing but he is too lost in his own problems to see it.