Lyric discussion by KlausWeiss 

only time will tell if I'll allow the scenery around to eat me alive

Waiting something out.

I want to sleep for weeks like a dog at her feet even though I know it won't work out in the long run

What he wants to do is to be with her.

so I burn down the wall, breathe my good shadow those arms I once knew, hold me like ghost

He's thinking of her still and always, too many reminders to just get her out of his head.

I learn how to speak a forgotten language I fall in the sea but forget how to swim

He tries removes her from all aspects of life, but can't function entirely normal. He's still too attached.

When anything that's anything becomes nothing that's everything and nothing is the only thing you ever seem to have

Having nothing, but everything is the full concept of acceptance.

I learn how to speak a defeated language I fall in the street as I howl at the moon

He's not sad anymore, he's angry. He's frustrated. He feels like something is wrong, but he can't find out how to fix it. Followed by the true message again and again with added feelings, and a reliving "la la la" which in this case may symbolize closure.

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