I’ve always thought that this song had to do with coming home off tour and what it must be like to go reintegrate into family life. He knows that his wife needs him in the next room over, but he is stuck in the room that he’s in may be trying to write songs. I thought about that too as far as maybe coming home from tour after they’ve been doing this for 10 years or so, and shedding a persona that he wears on the road. “the clothes I wore out there I will not wear ‘round you”
I’ve always thought that this song had to do with coming home off tour and what it must be like to go reintegrate into family life. He knows that his wife needs him in the next room over, but he is stuck in the room that he’s in may be trying to write songs. I thought about that too as far as maybe coming home from tour after they’ve been doing this for 10 years or so, and shedding a persona that he wears on the road. “the clothes I wore out there I will not wear ‘round you”