In his youth a man was happy, ambitious, eager to embrace the world around him. Everything was going for him. Pretty much just a normal typical young boy. As he grew older he fell into depression, drugs, etc. Washed his life away. His world has ended and he's stuck in his own despair. A deep deep depression that is unbelievably hard to break the grasp of.
I believe the song is about said man. He's walking down the stairs and perhaps there is a mirror on the wall or a picture of himself as a young boy. He stops and looks at his own face and is suddenly struck with the pain and grief of realizing he has let his life slip so shittily down the drain. He's confused by these sudden feelings and rememberances, as he thinks to himself, "I thought you died alone, a long long time ago." Referring to his younger self sinking into the depression he now carries. He's not even sure where things went wrong. "Who knows? Not me. I never lost control"
Experiencing these old feelings he decides to embark on a journey to recovery but it is not easy and it takes years. "I searched for form and land. For years and years I roamed". Along this journey he begins to notice how many others are feeling the same way as him and it strikes him with a deep pain. "I gazed a gazely stare at all of the millions here" It hurts him that this world could be so sad, and by the end of the song he deems himself no more capable than everyone else around him. They've all sold their own world (just like he sold his own) and he's fallen back into his own depression just like everybody else. He's helpless. "WE must have died alone, a long long time ago."
In his youth a man was happy, ambitious, eager to embrace the world around him. Everything was going for him. Pretty much just a normal typical young boy. As he grew older he fell into depression, drugs, etc. Washed his life away. His world has ended and he's stuck in his own despair. A deep deep depression that is unbelievably hard to break the grasp of.
I believe the song is about said man. He's walking down the stairs and perhaps there is a mirror on the wall or a picture of himself as a young boy. He stops and looks at his own face and is suddenly struck with the pain and grief of realizing he has let his life slip so shittily down the drain. He's confused by these sudden feelings and rememberances, as he thinks to himself, "I thought you died alone, a long long time ago." Referring to his younger self sinking into the depression he now carries. He's not even sure where things went wrong. "Who knows? Not me. I never lost control"
Experiencing these old feelings he decides to embark on a journey to recovery but it is not easy and it takes years. "I searched for form and land. For years and years I roamed". Along this journey he begins to notice how many others are feeling the same way as him and it strikes him with a deep pain. "I gazed a gazely stare at all of the millions here" It hurts him that this world could be so sad, and by the end of the song he deems himself no more capable than everyone else around him. They've all sold their own world (just like he sold his own) and he's fallen back into his own depression just like everybody else. He's helpless. "WE must have died alone, a long long time ago."