My own personal take on this song is that it could just as easily reflect the thoughts and feelings of someone with depression, feeling trapped in their day to day life. They regret what they've made of their life ("stay awake, in the dark, count mistakes") and they can't move beyond past events. They stay up all night making mental lists of their own failures and attempting to engage with their feelings of misery, "searching the ground for a bitter song", instead of going to sleep and sorting things out.
The rest of the world moves on without them, "the sun is out, the day is new, and everyone is waiting, waiting on you" and they find themselves stranded and isolated, clinging to their own regrets.
"Taking steps is easy, standing still is hard" is them looking out at others; for them it seems so easy, so why can't I get up and make things happen?
"You've got time" they mockingly tell themselves. Life is moving on and they're just stuck in their brutal routine. They don't have time.
My own personal take on this song is that it could just as easily reflect the thoughts and feelings of someone with depression, feeling trapped in their day to day life. They regret what they've made of their life ("stay awake, in the dark, count mistakes") and they can't move beyond past events. They stay up all night making mental lists of their own failures and attempting to engage with their feelings of misery, "searching the ground for a bitter song", instead of going to sleep and sorting things out.
The rest of the world moves on without them, "the sun is out, the day is new, and everyone is waiting, waiting on you" and they find themselves stranded and isolated, clinging to their own regrets.
"Taking steps is easy, standing still is hard" is them looking out at others; for them it seems so easy, so why can't I get up and make things happen?
"You've got time" they mockingly tell themselves. Life is moving on and they're just stuck in their brutal routine. They don't have time.