The brilliance of this man with his lyrics is pretty much only superseded by his ability to both open and close an album. The lyrics - they are what they are. We'll never really know what he was thinking about while writing / singing - but we don't need to. He's telling a story, and that story is about how he makes you feel. I don't interpret this song as literally as about a homeless person... But likewise, I feel, I hear, I live his state of mind every time I hear this song.
But that ending. This man knows how to put punctuation at the end of an album. "House of Smoke and Mirrors" at the end of Avalanche was a "…"; to be honest, I thought that was going to prove to be his last album. I thought he was going to quit, or Quit. But "Empty's Theme Park" ends with a definitive "."
Whatever this was, whatever he felt, whatever part of his life this song was about...
The brilliance of this man with his lyrics is pretty much only superseded by his ability to both open and close an album. The lyrics - they are what they are. We'll never really know what he was thinking about while writing / singing - but we don't need to. He's telling a story, and that story is about how he makes you feel. I don't interpret this song as literally as about a homeless person... But likewise, I feel, I hear, I live his state of mind every time I hear this song.
But that ending. This man knows how to put punctuation at the end of an album. "House of Smoke and Mirrors" at the end of Avalanche was a "…"; to be honest, I thought that was going to prove to be his last album. I thought he was going to quit, or Quit. But "Empty's Theme Park" ends with a definitive "."
Whatever this was, whatever he felt, whatever part of his life this song was about...
... he left it behind on that last note.