I Took a Long Hard Look Lyrics

Lyric discussion by Toastmelba 

Cover art for I Took a Long Hard Look lyrics by Belle & Sebastian

To me this song has always felt like someone who felt like they should grow up "Their antics on the page they're on can no longer sustain me...the shackles of the way I was can no longer contain me" but then they feel lost without the thing they gave up "Now I can't sing I can't feel I don't know what is real" and eventually they decide to go back to it "Now I know what true love means goodbye to reality and set sail for dreamsy "

I'm probably wrong and I can't decide what it is they gave up, because of the "antics on the page" it makes me think of comics but I doubt it's so simple. But anyway, that's what I always think of when I hear it.

My Interpretation