I've always interpreted it being told by the perspective of a person who has found out in death that all of the promises of an afterlife (i.e. Heaven) and the end of worldly suffering that he believed in were all a lie. The subject dies only to find out that they've either wound up in Hell or some other state of complete emptiness and is disappointed in this realization.
Perhaps the person has taken his own life wishing to end his worldly suffering only to wake up in a new Hell that is even worse than the pain he was trying to escape? The first person plural change towards the end of the song could be the subject speaking for all of the other disgruntled souls that exist in this place with him, as they may have also believed in some sort of salvation in death only to find out that they have created an even worse Hell for themselves by taking their own lives, as well.
That's just my interpretation, though. There are many different ways you can look at it, but I've always kind of seen it as a cautionary tale.
I've always interpreted it being told by the perspective of a person who has found out in death that all of the promises of an afterlife (i.e. Heaven) and the end of worldly suffering that he believed in were all a lie. The subject dies only to find out that they've either wound up in Hell or some other state of complete emptiness and is disappointed in this realization.
Perhaps the person has taken his own life wishing to end his worldly suffering only to wake up in a new Hell that is even worse than the pain he was trying to escape? The first person plural change towards the end of the song could be the subject speaking for all of the other disgruntled souls that exist in this place with him, as they may have also believed in some sort of salvation in death only to find out that they have created an even worse Hell for themselves by taking their own lives, as well.
That's just my interpretation, though. There are many different ways you can look at it, but I've always kind of seen it as a cautionary tale.