i don't think this is necessarily dedicated to a person who has died, but to a person who has loved you and doesn't love you anymore.
sometimes we are in a relationship and suddenly discover we are not in love anymore, don't we? so i think this is what the song is about. he talks about how we are growing up, living day by day, going on... and then we find out that we are not the same person we once were and that person is not the one he/she once was, and therefore we have no interest in some people or things anymore. that's why the line "you are a world away, a world away" fits perfectly, because the relationship gets colder: we forgot, we get tired, we move on... i don't know how to explain or say it, you know, we just need another thing and we need to go for it. in this particular case, as some sentences show ("So here's my debt to you, I wanted to say I live for you"), the writer might be the rejected person, that one who is no longer loved ("And I grow older, older a little closer, a little closer to you" - he hasn't stopped loving her/him).
i'm not sure of this, but well... just a new point of view!
i don't think this is necessarily dedicated to a person who has died, but to a person who has loved you and doesn't love you anymore.
sometimes we are in a relationship and suddenly discover we are not in love anymore, don't we? so i think this is what the song is about. he talks about how we are growing up, living day by day, going on... and then we find out that we are not the same person we once were and that person is not the one he/she once was, and therefore we have no interest in some people or things anymore. that's why the line "you are a world away, a world away" fits perfectly, because the relationship gets colder: we forgot, we get tired, we move on... i don't know how to explain or say it, you know, we just need another thing and we need to go for it. in this particular case, as some sentences show ("So here's my debt to you, I wanted to say I live for you"), the writer might be the rejected person, that one who is no longer loved ("And I grow older, older a little closer, a little closer to you" - he hasn't stopped loving her/him).
i'm not sure of this, but well... just a new point of view!