It seems to me to be a song about illness, specifically something chronic or incurable, and trying to make peace with that. There's mention of cancer, and then later in the song there is the "king" who seems to be suffering from Bipolar Disorder. The poor king can't be cured of his highs and lows, but he can be encouraged to remember that "this too shall pass." That the lows will pass if he just has the will to hold on until then.
The song feels like a meditation on the fragility, and temporary nature, of life. No state is permanent. Everything changes. Everything fades away. Our bodies are not singular things, but collections of smaller things, which are sometimes at odds with each other. That's the nature of Life. Even cancer has a dark kind of beauty to it, like a dangerous monster that needs to be vanquished. It's just following the single directive of Life: to continue.
That's all Life is: continuance. Everything passes. Everything fades. The only constant is change.
It seems to me to be a song about illness, specifically something chronic or incurable, and trying to make peace with that. There's mention of cancer, and then later in the song there is the "king" who seems to be suffering from Bipolar Disorder. The poor king can't be cured of his highs and lows, but he can be encouraged to remember that "this too shall pass." That the lows will pass if he just has the will to hold on until then.
The song feels like a meditation on the fragility, and temporary nature, of life. No state is permanent. Everything changes. Everything fades away. Our bodies are not singular things, but collections of smaller things, which are sometimes at odds with each other. That's the nature of Life. Even cancer has a dark kind of beauty to it, like a dangerous monster that needs to be vanquished. It's just following the single directive of Life: to continue.
That's all Life is: continuance. Everything passes. Everything fades. The only constant is change.