It speaks of a man who is depressed and alcoholic through unspoken reasons in his life. He can't trust and tell anyone because he's so shut in- like taking "blood from a stone".
He's afraid to continue living because he's "too afraid to make a man's mistakes", but he can't commit suicide because he "knows not to commit". He "yearns for the Great Silence".
Instead of killing himself however, he drowns his sorrow in copious amounts of alcohol and laments his depression, rather than try to find purpose in his life. Night after night, after "mingling with his demons", he's so drunk, he has to grasp a chair for physical support as he collapses into bed. All of this to face the next day.
It speaks of a man who is depressed and alcoholic through unspoken reasons in his life. He can't trust and tell anyone because he's so shut in- like taking "blood from a stone".
He's afraid to continue living because he's "too afraid to make a man's mistakes", but he can't commit suicide because he "knows not to commit". He "yearns for the Great Silence".
Instead of killing himself however, he drowns his sorrow in copious amounts of alcohol and laments his depression, rather than try to find purpose in his life. Night after night, after "mingling with his demons", he's so drunk, he has to grasp a chair for physical support as he collapses into bed. All of this to face the next day.