Hrhm. I think it's about working all your life, being just a busy ant in the nest, wasting all the time away ("You hear the clocks counting down"), getting closer to death ("...us lose the fight") and how days just seem to be shorter and shorter ("the nights are longer now than ever before").
Hrhm. I think it's about working all your life, being just a busy ant in the nest, wasting all the time away ("You hear the clocks counting down"), getting closer to death ("...us lose the fight") and how days just seem to be shorter and shorter ("the nights are longer now than ever before").