Gonna See My Friend Lyrics

Lyric discussion by acphenom 

Cover art for Gonna See My Friend lyrics by Pearl Jam

I see it as a song about suicide in a sense similar to Randy Robinson at the end of the film 'The Wrestler'. He's basically disillusioned with life or his life or something that's consumed it and he just wants to go out on his own terms. The friend I think is a friend, family member or hero who has passed, hence 'going to see' them and the suicide theory