I think it's much more a song about losing someone. From the first verse, I get the feeling he's a pall bearer in a funeral procession a la Louisiana, literally dragging the coffin and it's shadow down the street. Perhaps contemplating the moment he met the person that died.
The chorus is either him sinking in a depression or simply being in a place where the oceans waters calm him down.
The second verse actually gives me the thought it's a funeral. A slow parade could easily be a funeral procession. Ashes are nothing and the person missing from his life doesn't bother him sometimes, but others it leaves him distressed not knowing what to do. He is well aware that people leave your life just as quickly as they jump in it, and he wants the depression to dissipate so he can move on. The depression is pretty strong though as he says he was just gliding through a dream where the love was real.
The ending chorus may be simply reiterating the first's feelings, or him killing himself. That's just how I see it. It always leaves a twinge in my heart similar to Lover's Waltz.
I think it's much more a song about losing someone. From the first verse, I get the feeling he's a pall bearer in a funeral procession a la Louisiana, literally dragging the coffin and it's shadow down the street. Perhaps contemplating the moment he met the person that died.
The chorus is either him sinking in a depression or simply being in a place where the oceans waters calm him down.
The second verse actually gives me the thought it's a funeral. A slow parade could easily be a funeral procession. Ashes are nothing and the person missing from his life doesn't bother him sometimes, but others it leaves him distressed not knowing what to do. He is well aware that people leave your life just as quickly as they jump in it, and he wants the depression to dissipate so he can move on. The depression is pretty strong though as he says he was just gliding through a dream where the love was real.
The ending chorus may be simply reiterating the first's feelings, or him killing himself. That's just how I see it. It always leaves a twinge in my heart similar to Lover's Waltz.