It's about a friend who has a fascination with or just does things things that make him unhappy or depressed - hence the analogy of a bowerbird that collects things that are the colour blue.
The singer doesn't point out what he thinks is wrong with his friend and his direction in life and often goes along with him, for example in the lines "I just steered his bullshit through the next diversion", "And I joined his life of leisure in flight It's too hard to row a boat using a periscope" and "He was someone else's problem and that made me glad".
Eventually his friend dies after camping in Aokigahara and the singer comes across him whilst working in a hospital. It's as if his friend didn't want to die but the singer should have seen it coming seeing as his morbid fascination.
It's about a friend who has a fascination with or just does things things that make him unhappy or depressed - hence the analogy of a bowerbird that collects things that are the colour blue.
The singer doesn't point out what he thinks is wrong with his friend and his direction in life and often goes along with him, for example in the lines "I just steered his bullshit through the next diversion", "And I joined his life of leisure in flight It's too hard to row a boat using a periscope" and "He was someone else's problem and that made me glad".
Eventually his friend dies after camping in Aokigahara and the singer comes across him whilst working in a hospital. It's as if his friend didn't want to die but the singer should have seen it coming seeing as his morbid fascination.