The song is about a close friend that commits suicide and the friend is making sense of why it happened after it happened.
They didn't see it coming even though they were close friends, "I couldn't recognize your shell."
It's about how society often sees what it wants to see in people, nobody wants to see the dark side of life, we ignore what we don't want to see because most people are selfish.
The song confronts how we sometimes don't see things or appreciate things until it's too late.
"You said you're trapped in your body, getting deeper everyday."
The feeling of being trapped/imprisoned in your flesh, whether it's a debilitating mental illness, or a physical illness. That's up for you to interpret.
Also how a body can be deceptive, it's not obviously a prison, in society we associate suffering with the tangible, the obvious. Nobody realizes a body can be a prison.
"Might have learned how to swim
But never taught how to drown"
How society is all about staying above the water, being at a certain standard all the time. If you go under, you're by yourself.
"I called in sick from your funeral." Confronts how we treat personal, emotional events like soulless work obligations, how society is so numb to reality that you 'call in sick' like it's a job, rather than a funeral for a close friend.
“Your lack of love for your dear self is sapping all of us here out!
Trace your roots back to the ground, work out the knotholes for yourself”
How sometimes those that we think love us most leave us to figure ourselves out, we become isolated when we least expect it.
The song is about a close friend that commits suicide and the friend is making sense of why it happened after it happened.
They didn't see it coming even though they were close friends, "I couldn't recognize your shell." It's about how society often sees what it wants to see in people, nobody wants to see the dark side of life, we ignore what we don't want to see because most people are selfish.
The song confronts how we sometimes don't see things or appreciate things until it's too late.
"You said you're trapped in your body, getting deeper everyday." The feeling of being trapped/imprisoned in your flesh, whether it's a debilitating mental illness, or a physical illness. That's up for you to interpret.
Also how a body can be deceptive, it's not obviously a prison, in society we associate suffering with the tangible, the obvious. Nobody realizes a body can be a prison.
"Might have learned how to swim But never taught how to drown"
How society is all about staying above the water, being at a certain standard all the time. If you go under, you're by yourself.
"I called in sick from your funeral." Confronts how we treat personal, emotional events like soulless work obligations, how society is so numb to reality that you 'call in sick' like it's a job, rather than a funeral for a close friend.
“Your lack of love for your dear self is sapping all of us here out! Trace your roots back to the ground, work out the knotholes for yourself”
How sometimes those that we think love us most leave us to figure ourselves out, we become isolated when we least expect it.