This song is so short and beautiful. I'm glad they didn't try and stretch it out to a three-minute song or something, because although I always feel like it ends so quickly, that's one of the things I love about it.
I think it's pretty clear that it's about suicide, or more specifically, the lack thereof. I find the verb choice kind of eerie, though: "People you love WILL turn their backs on you". It's like he's TELLING you that this will happen to you. And it's said as a certainty: that this is just a fact of life.
"Your life's going to go to complete shit someday, but you're gonna put up with it anyway to see how it plays out." (to me this is the message the song conveys, but somehow pulls it off in a quiet and hopeful way :P)
All I know is, if I ever contemplate suicide, or know someone who is, I'm playing this song.
This song is so short and beautiful. I'm glad they didn't try and stretch it out to a three-minute song or something, because although I always feel like it ends so quickly, that's one of the things I love about it.
I think it's pretty clear that it's about suicide, or more specifically, the lack thereof. I find the verb choice kind of eerie, though: "People you love WILL turn their backs on you". It's like he's TELLING you that this will happen to you. And it's said as a certainty: that this is just a fact of life.
"Your life's going to go to complete shit someday, but you're gonna put up with it anyway to see how it plays out." (to me this is the message the song conveys, but somehow pulls it off in a quiet and hopeful way :P)
All I know is, if I ever contemplate suicide, or know someone who is, I'm playing this song.