For me, this song had always kind of an double meaning. On the one hand it's sounds like a song about somone who starts a new life after he got over something difficult and exhausting but also important in his life on which he can now (in retrospect) look at with a good feeling. (I heard the song first a while after my ex-boyfriend left me and it was oneof the first days I was feeling better and went outside and felt really like a loosing a huge burden. and it seemed to fit in a way.)
But on the other hand I always have to think about this song as being about suicide. "the rest of your life" could also mean something like "the last few minutes of your life". The person has decided to kill himself so he can look back at his life and also see the nice moments he had, because he already decided that it was not enough to continiue this life. But this interpretation is not that much about the lyrics but more about the music an the way the song is sung. It's not sung with an happy voice really. It sound more as sung by someone who hasn't anything left to loose, like he has resinged to the fact that he doesn't want to live any longer and doesn't have to because he already has made his plans, said goodbye to his family and is now standing on the cliff, ready to jump.
For me, this song had always kind of an double meaning. On the one hand it's sounds like a song about somone who starts a new life after he got over something difficult and exhausting but also important in his life on which he can now (in retrospect) look at with a good feeling. (I heard the song first a while after my ex-boyfriend left me and it was oneof the first days I was feeling better and went outside and felt really like a loosing a huge burden. and it seemed to fit in a way.)
But on the other hand I always have to think about this song as being about suicide. "the rest of your life" could also mean something like "the last few minutes of your life". The person has decided to kill himself so he can look back at his life and also see the nice moments he had, because he already decided that it was not enough to continiue this life. But this interpretation is not that much about the lyrics but more about the music an the way the song is sung. It's not sung with an happy voice really. It sound more as sung by someone who hasn't anything left to loose, like he has resinged to the fact that he doesn't want to live any longer and doesn't have to because he already has made his plans, said goodbye to his family and is now standing on the cliff, ready to jump.