The thing that made me fall so in love with this song was hearing "I'm tired of traitors, always changing sides, they were friends of mine" as simply grief over friends who've died. The betrayal is that irrational feeling you have of being left by the deceased.
What's beautiful is he's warning himself against caring for more people who could leave, but has to distract himself with everyday life to keep from thinking of death (Starting with "Bought a mantra.."). In the process he finds some sad beauty and accidentally (tragically) meets a new "precious friend." The star is a throwback to "Jejune Stars", and is a symbol for the way we're connected to each other and everything else.
It's a sad, hard, losing battle, but the message of the song and album is "you're not alone in fighting it"
The thing that made me fall so in love with this song was hearing "I'm tired of traitors, always changing sides, they were friends of mine" as simply grief over friends who've died. The betrayal is that irrational feeling you have of being left by the deceased.
What's beautiful is he's warning himself against caring for more people who could leave, but has to distract himself with everyday life to keep from thinking of death (Starting with "Bought a mantra.."). In the process he finds some sad beauty and accidentally (tragically) meets a new "precious friend." The star is a throwback to "Jejune Stars", and is a symbol for the way we're connected to each other and everything else.
It's a sad, hard, losing battle, but the message of the song and album is "you're not alone in fighting it"