The song is pretty easy to break down. It's about Kim saying goodbye to having a normal life. It's about how you never say goodbye to the past, you just move on from it without ever realizing it until you're far down the road of life.
It's about how she realized she was never going to be a mother, never going to live like her parents, never going to be Mrs. John Murphy. It's about her being at peace with her life choices. If she were to die, she would have no regrets... Or at least, that's what the "And now may die" line implies.
The song is pretty easy to break down. It's about Kim saying goodbye to having a normal life. It's about how you never say goodbye to the past, you just move on from it without ever realizing it until you're far down the road of life.
It's about how she realized she was never going to be a mother, never going to live like her parents, never going to be Mrs. John Murphy. It's about her being at peace with her life choices. If she were to die, she would have no regrets... Or at least, that's what the "And now may die" line implies.