At first I took this song to be a happy song about making changes for the better in your life and finally awaiting the approach of spring. However, now I see that it could be taken as a song about suicide... the place "where it's warmer" could be Heaven or whatever idea the narrator has of a better place after death. "I've seen everything"- resignation, the belief that there's nothing more that life has to offer. "We're leaving here, regret to inform you"- the narrator and other people, friends maybe- perhaps members of a suicide pact- are leaving because they're no longer living, and they're sorry that they have to tell someone of their departure/sorry that they have to depart. There are some other lyrical connotations that I could go into, but won't. It's just surprising that a happy-sounding song on the surface really has quite saddening lyrics, like the song Easy Read, which sounds happy but contains the lyric "Nobody wants me here at all."
At first I took this song to be a happy song about making changes for the better in your life and finally awaiting the approach of spring. However, now I see that it could be taken as a song about suicide... the place "where it's warmer" could be Heaven or whatever idea the narrator has of a better place after death. "I've seen everything"- resignation, the belief that there's nothing more that life has to offer. "We're leaving here, regret to inform you"- the narrator and other people, friends maybe- perhaps members of a suicide pact- are leaving because they're no longer living, and they're sorry that they have to tell someone of their departure/sorry that they have to depart. There are some other lyrical connotations that I could go into, but won't. It's just surprising that a happy-sounding song on the surface really has quite saddening lyrics, like the song Easy Read, which sounds happy but contains the lyric "Nobody wants me here at all."