The Day I Lost My Voice (The Suitcase Song) Lyrics

Lyric discussion by diyzerz 

Cover art for The Day I Lost My Voice (The Suitcase Song) lyrics by Copeland

I'm not sure if anybody even comes here anymore, but I really feel like this song is about depression.

When you're depressed you tend to (or at least I tend to) feel like running away and leaving everything behind. In the beginning of the song he describes how strange and distant he feels as compared to the rest of the world ("that I was superimposed somehow in this life"). And this loneliness makes him wish his friends would call him to remind him of his existence in reality.

And when he says he has "no time", it's because he's too busy comtemplating running away from reality. And when he says "what could be an anchor here with a storm on the rise" he's desperately searching for something to hold on to while his depression takes over, something to keep him from running away for real.

My Interpretation