The key lyric is "Life will pass me by if I don't open up my eyes/Well that's fine by me".
This song is a song of surrender. The singer has been beaten down by life ("I tried carrying the weight of the world/But I only have two hands") and is afraid of growing old and senile, but not old and wise ("I wish that I could stay forever this young").
The whole thing is a desire to go to sleep and never wake up again. To let the sorrows of life pass by during sleep and let morning rush in.
The key lyric is "Life will pass me by if I don't open up my eyes/Well that's fine by me".
This song is a song of surrender. The singer has been beaten down by life ("I tried carrying the weight of the world/But I only have two hands") and is afraid of growing old and senile, but not old and wise ("I wish that I could stay forever this young").
The whole thing is a desire to go to sleep and never wake up again. To let the sorrows of life pass by during sleep and let morning rush in.