I reached the same conclusion of "thebodiesobtained". The song, to me, clearly is written by two people: A recently dead (post-suicide) person and one that is about to commit suicide. Of course, they are the same. It talks first about a change of scene, of style, chance to see with no regrets. The "loaded gun won't set you free" is where this person talks to the loved one.
"We'll gave you everything and more" basically expresses the feeling that the song is written by a dual voice in the same discuss.
"Oh, I've walked on water, run through fire
Can't seem to feel it anymore" - In this part the person that will commit suicide is in a state of deep depression and can't even feel the external world, as it often happens in deep depression, and at the same time, a dead person won't feel sensory stimula likewise.
Now the most beautiful part of the song: The meeting of the "about to die" person (past) with the "recently dead" person: Like two people meeting each other, the recently dead person going towards the "light at the end" and meeting himself (already dead)
"It was me, waiting for me
Hoping for something more." The already dead person was wating to welcome himself (that just was killed), but hoping for something more. Someone bigger, more experienced from this life, now over.
and...
"Me, seeing me this time, hoping for something else"
The over point of view: the recently dead person seeing that what he found at the end of the "road", when he killed himself, was himself only, and not "something else", like another being.
If a person already knows that he will commit suicide, he won't picture his future of someone old, but focusing in the point of death. what he will find, and in this case, Ian curtis thinks the person will only find himself, frustrated for not welcoming a bigger self, and at the other side, the one that commited suicide won't find anything better, like God or whatever, will find, to his utter dispair, his own self.
I reached the same conclusion of "thebodiesobtained". The song, to me, clearly is written by two people: A recently dead (post-suicide) person and one that is about to commit suicide. Of course, they are the same. It talks first about a change of scene, of style, chance to see with no regrets. The "loaded gun won't set you free" is where this person talks to the loved one. "We'll gave you everything and more" basically expresses the feeling that the song is written by a dual voice in the same discuss. "Oh, I've walked on water, run through fire Can't seem to feel it anymore" - In this part the person that will commit suicide is in a state of deep depression and can't even feel the external world, as it often happens in deep depression, and at the same time, a dead person won't feel sensory stimula likewise. Now the most beautiful part of the song: The meeting of the "about to die" person (past) with the "recently dead" person: Like two people meeting each other, the recently dead person going towards the "light at the end" and meeting himself (already dead) "It was me, waiting for me Hoping for something more." The already dead person was wating to welcome himself (that just was killed), but hoping for something more. Someone bigger, more experienced from this life, now over. and... "Me, seeing me this time, hoping for something else" The over point of view: the recently dead person seeing that what he found at the end of the "road", when he killed himself, was himself only, and not "something else", like another being.
If a person already knows that he will commit suicide, he won't picture his future of someone old, but focusing in the point of death. what he will find, and in this case, Ian curtis thinks the person will only find himself, frustrated for not welcoming a bigger self, and at the other side, the one that commited suicide won't find anything better, like God or whatever, will find, to his utter dispair, his own self.