I think the song is about sacrifice and deception. "we gave our lives, to learn how to fly on our own," I think is talking about how we try so hard to be individuals in this world, we try so hard to be unique. This line can be taken very seriously, like i think of Kurt Cobain, who "literally" gave his life to be his own person, someone that wasn't fake or copied. Or you could take it with a more passive meaning, such as that we try so hard to be a unique "individual" that we "give" or devote our lives to it. "only to find out that the edge of all we've known, it was just a painted sky," which is an awesome lyric btw, says that we make this sacrifice, we try so hard, only to find that all that we were working towards was just a painted sky, a picture, "a clever disguise to make the heavens reflect in our eyes," which i find to be a hauntingly beautiful lyric, because it says that we were deceived by the painted sky, that cleverly reflected the "heavens," in our eyes, that provided us inspiration. Beautiful song, short (and possibly for a reason), but awesome.
I think the song is about sacrifice and deception. "we gave our lives, to learn how to fly on our own," I think is talking about how we try so hard to be individuals in this world, we try so hard to be unique. This line can be taken very seriously, like i think of Kurt Cobain, who "literally" gave his life to be his own person, someone that wasn't fake or copied. Or you could take it with a more passive meaning, such as that we try so hard to be a unique "individual" that we "give" or devote our lives to it. "only to find out that the edge of all we've known, it was just a painted sky," which is an awesome lyric btw, says that we make this sacrifice, we try so hard, only to find that all that we were working towards was just a painted sky, a picture, "a clever disguise to make the heavens reflect in our eyes," which i find to be a hauntingly beautiful lyric, because it says that we were deceived by the painted sky, that cleverly reflected the "heavens," in our eyes, that provided us inspiration. Beautiful song, short (and possibly for a reason), but awesome.