"for me the song is about that moment when life overwhelms you and, in this specific instance, the moment you realize someone you love is slipping away from you (be it from death or lost ties etc)
i feel like he's reached that moment where everything around him is moving in slow motion, like he's stuck and doesn't know what to do.
he imagines the walls having eyes (think of those horror movies where everything is exaggerated and scary in the dark), like everything is judging/staring at him"
I agree with you, bakemeacake161. Then, when he says, "Snowflakes are falling / I'll catch them in my hands / Snowflakes are falling / Now you're my long lost friend," I think that he is still talking about the impermanence of things. Just like the person did, the snowflakes disappear after he catches them (snowflakes do a "slow dissolve" in your hands after you catch them). Just like these snowflakes, the person is gone. Now, he or she is his "long lost friend" rather than the friend who is still there and still a real part of his life.
"for me the song is about that moment when life overwhelms you and, in this specific instance, the moment you realize someone you love is slipping away from you (be it from death or lost ties etc)
i feel like he's reached that moment where everything around him is moving in slow motion, like he's stuck and doesn't know what to do.
he imagines the walls having eyes (think of those horror movies where everything is exaggerated and scary in the dark), like everything is judging/staring at him"
I agree with you, bakemeacake161. Then, when he says, "Snowflakes are falling / I'll catch them in my hands / Snowflakes are falling / Now you're my long lost friend," I think that he is still talking about the impermanence of things. Just like the person did, the snowflakes disappear after he catches them (snowflakes do a "slow dissolve" in your hands after you catch them). Just like these snowflakes, the person is gone. Now, he or she is his "long lost friend" rather than the friend who is still there and still a real part of his life.