The speaker of the song has realized love and life aren't as ideal as they once thought and that things don't always work out, but even after knowing this, wouldn't change the way the world works. They are at peace with the world and with the way their life has turned out at this point and feel a kind of wonderful relief.
Like the song "Vaporize", the song ends with an intimate honest thought that seems to be spoken directly to the listeners, but I'm not sure how to interpret it:
"We look for exit signs
But we can't be changed
Into nothing overnight
Though we know it's over
It keeps exploding
Every morning when we rise"
Maybe the "exit signs" we are looking for indicate exits from the "ordinary life" mentioned earlier in the song. However, since we're deeply entrenched in our ordinary lives, it's difficult to just leave that life and "be changed into nothing overnight", to become someone like the speaker with "nothing left" for anyone to take away. As for the "we know it's over", maybe this refers to a love or a dream we once had that is gone now, and we think about them every day ("It keeps exploding / Every morning when we rise").
The speaker of the song has realized love and life aren't as ideal as they once thought and that things don't always work out, but even after knowing this, wouldn't change the way the world works. They are at peace with the world and with the way their life has turned out at this point and feel a kind of wonderful relief.
Like the song "Vaporize", the song ends with an intimate honest thought that seems to be spoken directly to the listeners, but I'm not sure how to interpret it:
"We look for exit signs But we can't be changed Into nothing overnight Though we know it's over It keeps exploding Every morning when we rise"
Maybe the "exit signs" we are looking for indicate exits from the "ordinary life" mentioned earlier in the song. However, since we're deeply entrenched in our ordinary lives, it's difficult to just leave that life and "be changed into nothing overnight", to become someone like the speaker with "nothing left" for anyone to take away. As for the "we know it's over", maybe this refers to a love or a dream we once had that is gone now, and we think about them every day ("It keeps exploding / Every morning when we rise").