So I've given this thing a little more thought (couldn't help it!) and this is what I came up with:
What you've got here are two small parts of a person's mind at war with each other. The overall person is pretty far gone down a path of self-destruction, and the negative, self-destructive part of their mind wants them to shut out everyone else in the world and keep doing that.
But the song itself takes place during a rare moment of lucidity, where, in the verses, the small positive part of the person's mind desperately tries to convince them that this is not who they really are... the voice is weak and the things it says are garbled and slightly nonsensical in its desperation to reach the outside world before this moment of lucidity is over.
In the choruses the negative, self-destructive part of the person comes in insisting that the positive voice isn't a real part of them and should be ignored... the positive voice is still there, in the background, trying to tell the mind to wake up and realize that this is just what it tells itself as an excuse to stay self-destructive, but it's nearly drowned out.
At the end of the song the moment of lucidity is over and the positive voice has lost the battle... but there is a hint that it will try again, and again, and maybe eventually grow strong enough to be heard.
So I've given this thing a little more thought (couldn't help it!) and this is what I came up with: What you've got here are two small parts of a person's mind at war with each other. The overall person is pretty far gone down a path of self-destruction, and the negative, self-destructive part of their mind wants them to shut out everyone else in the world and keep doing that. But the song itself takes place during a rare moment of lucidity, where, in the verses, the small positive part of the person's mind desperately tries to convince them that this is not who they really are... the voice is weak and the things it says are garbled and slightly nonsensical in its desperation to reach the outside world before this moment of lucidity is over. In the choruses the negative, self-destructive part of the person comes in insisting that the positive voice isn't a real part of them and should be ignored... the positive voice is still there, in the background, trying to tell the mind to wake up and realize that this is just what it tells itself as an excuse to stay self-destructive, but it's nearly drowned out.
At the end of the song the moment of lucidity is over and the positive voice has lost the battle... but there is a hint that it will try again, and again, and maybe eventually grow strong enough to be heard.