My guess is that this one is about a man having an inner debate about whether or not there is an afterlife. We are all "under zenith" or under the same sky but are we under heaven or just a barren sky? "Maybe they'll come back again"-maybe the dead still live; "maybe they're gone"-maybe they are just dead. "Leave a little room for us to breathe" could be a plea for an answer. Or it's possible that he actually feels offended by religion and wants people who are telling him that his dead compatriot is still living to take their condolences elsewhere. "Seven days" could be some sort of throwback to creation in the Bible. "Leash" could be another reference to him feeling oppressed by religion. The "frozen man" is probably the dead man who has sparked this debate within him. I think that "Somewhere someone has to cry" could be two different things. It could just refer to the dead man's survivors who are mourning his loss. Or it could be that the narrator is leaning back towards the thought of there being an afterlife after all: somewhere God, angels, etc. are crying for this man and feeling sorry for the survivors that they have left on Earth. The letting me fall but not too far bit could be someone who is condoling him in a secular way. The person is letting him fall by agreeing with him that there's no God (opinion swings back around again) but he/she is not letting him fall completely because he/she is still there for him. Or it could be a matter of him talking back to God: God didn't let him fall completely because his life is still preserved but he did let him fall somewhat in that he no longer has the dead loved one with him. So overall, my take on this is that it's an inner turmoil on religion, God and afterlife following someone's death. It seems like the narrator is alternating between the thought of there being a kind God, the thought of there being no God and the thought of there being a God who has let him down. I'm not trying to offend anyone by actually taking up any one of these viewpoints; I'm just saying that I think that this is the question that this song is addressing.
My guess is that this one is about a man having an inner debate about whether or not there is an afterlife. We are all "under zenith" or under the same sky but are we under heaven or just a barren sky? "Maybe they'll come back again"-maybe the dead still live; "maybe they're gone"-maybe they are just dead. "Leave a little room for us to breathe" could be a plea for an answer. Or it's possible that he actually feels offended by religion and wants people who are telling him that his dead compatriot is still living to take their condolences elsewhere. "Seven days" could be some sort of throwback to creation in the Bible. "Leash" could be another reference to him feeling oppressed by religion. The "frozen man" is probably the dead man who has sparked this debate within him. I think that "Somewhere someone has to cry" could be two different things. It could just refer to the dead man's survivors who are mourning his loss. Or it could be that the narrator is leaning back towards the thought of there being an afterlife after all: somewhere God, angels, etc. are crying for this man and feeling sorry for the survivors that they have left on Earth. The letting me fall but not too far bit could be someone who is condoling him in a secular way. The person is letting him fall by agreeing with him that there's no God (opinion swings back around again) but he/she is not letting him fall completely because he/she is still there for him. Or it could be a matter of him talking back to God: God didn't let him fall completely because his life is still preserved but he did let him fall somewhat in that he no longer has the dead loved one with him. So overall, my take on this is that it's an inner turmoil on religion, God and afterlife following someone's death. It seems like the narrator is alternating between the thought of there being a kind God, the thought of there being no God and the thought of there being a God who has let him down. I'm not trying to offend anyone by actually taking up any one of these viewpoints; I'm just saying that I think that this is the question that this song is addressing.