My Pillow Is the Threshold Lyrics

Lyric discussion by doommullet 

Cover art for My Pillow Is the Threshold lyrics by Silver Jews, The

To me, this song is about someone who has died and left the narrator behind in life. The only way they can be reunited is in sleep, in dreams. At the end, it seems as if the narrator may commit suicide to join the other person in the afterlife: "now the next move's up to me". They lay their head down on the pillow once again, this time for good, hoping to see the lost person again.