I think it's written from his perspective at the end of a break-up, and then "sometime later" when he's speaking to the woman again and trying to win her back.
"Broken skyline" is the woman. In that part, he's conjuring the image of her walking off into the proverbial sunset as he watches her leave.
"She's an honest defector / Conscientious objector / Now her own protector" = She's the one who ended the relationship. And now his role of "protector" in their relationship is over. She's decided to be on her own.
"Which way to love land" is him asking her in the lyrics what he needs to do to make her love him again, and how he can get her to forgive him for something he did. But
"Sometime later, getting the words wrong / Wasting the meaning and losing the rhyme" is about a conversation they have days or weeks later. He still wants her back, but the phone call doesn't go the way he hoped, then it devolves into a fight. He starts to realize she's not coming back to him. It really is over, and he knows he needs to move on.
The chorus throughout the song is him trying to motivate himself, because he knows moving on is the only healthy thing to do.
I think it's written from his perspective at the end of a break-up, and then "sometime later" when he's speaking to the woman again and trying to win her back.
"Broken skyline" is the woman. In that part, he's conjuring the image of her walking off into the proverbial sunset as he watches her leave.
"She's an honest defector / Conscientious objector / Now her own protector" = She's the one who ended the relationship. And now his role of "protector" in their relationship is over. She's decided to be on her own.
"Which way to love land" is him asking her in the lyrics what he needs to do to make her love him again, and how he can get her to forgive him for something he did. But
"Sometime later, getting the words wrong / Wasting the meaning and losing the rhyme" is about a conversation they have days or weeks later. He still wants her back, but the phone call doesn't go the way he hoped, then it devolves into a fight. He starts to realize she's not coming back to him. It really is over, and he knows he needs to move on.
The chorus throughout the song is him trying to motivate himself, because he knows moving on is the only healthy thing to do.