My interpretation is that the teenager, possibly around eighteen, is obviously contemplating suicide and thinking back on everything bitterly and trying to tell everyone how he feels. 'You'll be sorry when I'm gone'. I know that feeling, and that's obviously bitter reminiscence. 'I never conquered, rarely came, 16 just held such better days'. He doesn't think that he has really accomplished that much since he was that age and he wishes he was sixteen again where he then had much less cares and worries. At the end of the song, he has more hope and he has decided not to commit suicide. 'I never conquered, rarely came, TOMORROW just HOLDS such better days. Days when I can STILL feel alive, when I CAN'T wait to get outside.'
My interpretation is that the teenager, possibly around eighteen, is obviously contemplating suicide and thinking back on everything bitterly and trying to tell everyone how he feels. 'You'll be sorry when I'm gone'. I know that feeling, and that's obviously bitter reminiscence. 'I never conquered, rarely came, 16 just held such better days'. He doesn't think that he has really accomplished that much since he was that age and he wishes he was sixteen again where he then had much less cares and worries. At the end of the song, he has more hope and he has decided not to commit suicide. 'I never conquered, rarely came, TOMORROW just HOLDS such better days. Days when I can STILL feel alive, when I CAN'T wait to get outside.'