Darker with the Day

I really like all of the interpretations above. Cioni's insight that maybe the narrator returns as a ghost is intriguing.

the last lines of the song remind me of the final scene of the Shining, where the boy's father sits slumped in the deepening snow, while he runs around the maze, connected by "the shining" to something he doesn't really understand. I wonder if anyone could make some sense of how that might tie to the rest of the song??