This is a song about loss. At some point in life, all you can count on is losing people. I'm not surprised no one else has really felt that as of yet. I've had loss my entire life. When you start to get older, though, you have nothing to gain and everything to lose. You'll lose your parents, friends, partner, and anyone else. Age does harsh things to your views on the world. As a child when people started leaving, I became accustomed to it and have been decidedly singular and separate from anyone else ever since. Sure, I take it personally, but it's why you don't want to see your reflection anymore. You see all the pain and loss added upon itself to disfigure you and your emotional state. It becomes easier to stop caring about anyone but yourself. You sink or swim because you want to, but everyone wants someone else to understand and be part of their life. When you lose their caring in relation to yourself, you lose your own. That's the basic genesis of this song.
For the most part, you're looking at someone who wants to die because they have nothing to live for. Somehow, he never loses hope that he will gain a reason to live, though. When you lose everything but yourself and no one is there to understand, what is there to live for? A hope that someone will pick up that book no one else wants to read.
This is a song about loss. At some point in life, all you can count on is losing people. I'm not surprised no one else has really felt that as of yet. I've had loss my entire life. When you start to get older, though, you have nothing to gain and everything to lose. You'll lose your parents, friends, partner, and anyone else. Age does harsh things to your views on the world. As a child when people started leaving, I became accustomed to it and have been decidedly singular and separate from anyone else ever since. Sure, I take it personally, but it's why you don't want to see your reflection anymore. You see all the pain and loss added upon itself to disfigure you and your emotional state. It becomes easier to stop caring about anyone but yourself. You sink or swim because you want to, but everyone wants someone else to understand and be part of their life. When you lose their caring in relation to yourself, you lose your own. That's the basic genesis of this song.
For the most part, you're looking at someone who wants to die because they have nothing to live for. Somehow, he never loses hope that he will gain a reason to live, though. When you lose everything but yourself and no one is there to understand, what is there to live for? A hope that someone will pick up that book no one else wants to read.