Interesting thoughts, especially about it possibly being about their career so far.
When I first heard it, it struck that it was a reference to the death of a loved one ("I know you need me in the next room over, But I am stuck in here all paralyzed"), and the narrator's own disillusionment with this life, especially the emptiness of hedonism and the pain that we cause each other when we act selfishly ("all that matters is that you have your good times, But their good times come with prices, And I can't believe it when I hear the jokes they make, At anyone's expese except their own, Would they laugh if they knew who paid").
So he's criticising other people in his frustration, but then realises he doesn't have answers either. The line "We love to talk on things we don't know about" would then seem to be a nod to the philosopher Wittgenstein: "About what one can not speak, one must remain silent".
Interesting thoughts, especially about it possibly being about their career so far.
When I first heard it, it struck that it was a reference to the death of a loved one ("I know you need me in the next room over, But I am stuck in here all paralyzed"), and the narrator's own disillusionment with this life, especially the emptiness of hedonism and the pain that we cause each other when we act selfishly ("all that matters is that you have your good times, But their good times come with prices, And I can't believe it when I hear the jokes they make, At anyone's expese except their own, Would they laugh if they knew who paid").
So he's criticising other people in his frustration, but then realises he doesn't have answers either. The line "We love to talk on things we don't know about" would then seem to be a nod to the philosopher Wittgenstein: "About what one can not speak, one must remain silent".