To me, it sounds like a new father/husband who is asking his wife to be patient with him when he goes a little crazy. It's very easy at that point in your life to feel like you are slowly drifting away from yourself, and your freedom is dwindling ('losing our exits one by one' could mean slowly realizing there isn't going to be an "out" and this your life now, for better or for worse). In this case he knows he is just looking at the negatives in the situation (pulling the devil down with him) and it is only a temporary state of mind (I'm out of my mind).
My favorite verse in the song is:
We've been running a sleepless run
Been away from the baby way too long
We've been holding a good night gun
We've been losing our exits one by one
The fact that he all of a sudden uses "we" instead of "I" here shows an understanding that his wife is going through the same exact thing that he is, one of the reasons he hopes she will understand when he asks her to wait. He's been away from the baby so long that he's forgotten what is really important in his life. The "good night gun" could be due to the fact that new parents are usually more tired and more stressed. This means they have less time to actually spend with one another alone and sometimes they don't feel truly emotionally close anymore. Whereas they used to talk or make love before going to bed, more often now the night simply ends with a "good night", despite the fact that this kills them both inside. It feels almost like there is a gun being put to there heads forcing them to simply say "good night" instead of bursting forth with all of the things they really want to say.
Again, this is just my interpretation and you could easily go a complete different direction with it. Regardless, it's a truly beautiful song.
I agree with most of your interpretation except on the line "we've been holding a good night gun". I think this could of been summed up more simply, you extracted more meaning from it than there was to find. I think it's just about being really stress by your thoughts at night. "sleepless run" Loss of sleep over thoughts on how to solve "our" problems, and like you said, it seems like they can't find any solution "losing our exits one by one"
I agree with most of your interpretation except on the line "we've been holding a good night gun". I think this could of been summed up more simply, you extracted more meaning from it than there was to find. I think it's just about being really stress by your thoughts at night. "sleepless run" Loss of sleep over thoughts on how to solve "our" problems, and like you said, it seems like they can't find any solution "losing our exits one by one"
To me, it sounds like a new father/husband who is asking his wife to be patient with him when he goes a little crazy. It's very easy at that point in your life to feel like you are slowly drifting away from yourself, and your freedom is dwindling ('losing our exits one by one' could mean slowly realizing there isn't going to be an "out" and this your life now, for better or for worse). In this case he knows he is just looking at the negatives in the situation (pulling the devil down with him) and it is only a temporary state of mind (I'm out of my mind).
My favorite verse in the song is:
We've been running a sleepless run Been away from the baby way too long We've been holding a good night gun We've been losing our exits one by one
The fact that he all of a sudden uses "we" instead of "I" here shows an understanding that his wife is going through the same exact thing that he is, one of the reasons he hopes she will understand when he asks her to wait. He's been away from the baby so long that he's forgotten what is really important in his life. The "good night gun" could be due to the fact that new parents are usually more tired and more stressed. This means they have less time to actually spend with one another alone and sometimes they don't feel truly emotionally close anymore. Whereas they used to talk or make love before going to bed, more often now the night simply ends with a "good night", despite the fact that this kills them both inside. It feels almost like there is a gun being put to there heads forcing them to simply say "good night" instead of bursting forth with all of the things they really want to say.
Again, this is just my interpretation and you could easily go a complete different direction with it. Regardless, it's a truly beautiful song.
I agree with most of your interpretation except on the line "we've been holding a good night gun". I think this could of been summed up more simply, you extracted more meaning from it than there was to find. I think it's just about being really stress by your thoughts at night. "sleepless run" Loss of sleep over thoughts on how to solve "our" problems, and like you said, it seems like they can't find any solution "losing our exits one by one"
I agree with most of your interpretation except on the line "we've been holding a good night gun". I think this could of been summed up more simply, you extracted more meaning from it than there was to find. I think it's just about being really stress by your thoughts at night. "sleepless run" Loss of sleep over thoughts on how to solve "our" problems, and like you said, it seems like they can't find any solution "losing our exits one by one"