My interpretation is actually completely opposite from Kwazy's. I think this song is, if anything, an attack on youthful idealism. The "40 days at sea..." part seems to be saying that this woman dreamed of wandering around like Jack Kerouac, but now that she's actually gotten herself lost, she's thinking she was kind of dumb. And if she survives the experience she once thought of as so romantic, she's going to become more of a grown-up and stop daydreaming about "leaving it all behind."
My interpretation is actually completely opposite from Kwazy's. I think this song is, if anything, an attack on youthful idealism. The "40 days at sea..." part seems to be saying that this woman dreamed of wandering around like Jack Kerouac, but now that she's actually gotten herself lost, she's thinking she was kind of dumb. And if she survives the experience she once thought of as so romantic, she's going to become more of a grown-up and stop daydreaming about "leaving it all behind."