As someone who suffers with a chronic pain illness and a disease that has me admitted to hospital often, this song makes me think of the depression and pain that comes with being ill all of the time.
The line ‘Get well balloon, going insane’ makes me think of the mind decaying feeling I get after lying in a hospital bed for days, just dying of boredom.
Maybe this is Conor’s take on aging, and the effect it has on both his physical body and mental state? He doesn’t want to have to depend on anyone, but he’s “acting(/feeling?) my age, waiting to die”.
As someone who suffers with a chronic pain illness and a disease that has me admitted to hospital often, this song makes me think of the depression and pain that comes with being ill all of the time. The line ‘Get well balloon, going insane’ makes me think of the mind decaying feeling I get after lying in a hospital bed for days, just dying of boredom. Maybe this is Conor’s take on aging, and the effect it has on both his physical body and mental state? He doesn’t want to have to depend on anyone, but he’s “acting(/feeling?) my age, waiting to die”.