I feel like he's maybe addressing a girl who he loves who has had some sort of serious emotional problems (suicide, abuse, death of a close one, drugs, who knows) and she has taken the typical course of rehab, so she's back from some fancy rehab place that makes it seem like a vacation (based on "personal hell," "sad eyes," and "terminal health")
it seems like he doubts that this way of recovery will work, he's advocating a more natural way, which for him is through song
maybe whatever is upsetting her was something that both of them had to go through, but he's handling it better since he says "you'd say I'm out of my head
but really I'm the only one who's bounced back"
I feel like he's maybe addressing a girl who he loves who has had some sort of serious emotional problems (suicide, abuse, death of a close one, drugs, who knows) and she has taken the typical course of rehab, so she's back from some fancy rehab place that makes it seem like a vacation (based on "personal hell," "sad eyes," and "terminal health")
it seems like he doubts that this way of recovery will work, he's advocating a more natural way, which for him is through song
maybe whatever is upsetting her was something that both of them had to go through, but he's handling it better since he says "you'd say I'm out of my head but really I'm the only one who's bounced back"
it's kind of a resigned, bittersweet song