Lyric discussion by ah.yes.please. 

Cover art for Nothing and Nowhere lyrics by Emily Haines & the Soft Skeleton

["How you gonna hide 'til you disappear? Because nothing and nowhere is golden."] Expectations fail, that's how I hear it. And then you "hide" (or literally), so no one, but mostly yourself can see your own fall. Sounds like avoiding disappointment. But I think this question ("How you gonna hide 'til you disappear?") has a bit of irony in it..Because you can't avoid such things, it's a part of life, if you hide - you're already gone. ["Numb is the new high, old memories die out 'till Nothing and nowhere is golden."] "old memories" seem like the only thing,that's left "golden". ["it isn't insane on paper to have to ask "] At first, I thought it has some historical meaning, like everything is repeating. History itself repeats and it's not insane, this's how it goes. OR permanent are only things you write!On paper, what you read and 'put it in your head' is permanent ("golden") ' till you forget it.. but still it's written on "permanent" paper! Yeah! I swear I couldn't explain it twice now ..but this how I hear this song now. It's "golden" to me :) It'd be interesting to read more thoughts on this line =]