OMG! I just heard this song for the first time, it is is so beautiful and so very haunting at the same time. I know my thoughts about the lyrics will may not be very well received but are not all songs, poems, literature, written words, etc. open for self interpretation? It is indeed about depression and being in a dark, lonely and hard and very sad place in life but the reason for this is due to being much older and not ever thinking you would be in this particular horrible place, realizing that all of your hopes and dreams have not come true and everyone and everything around you feels lifeless, drab, colorless (grey) phony and stone- like with no feelings at all. "I never thought I would find myself, in bed among the stones." The next lines, "the columns are all men, begging to crush me". This to me, because I am a female, (yes I know this song was written by a male) means all the relationships throughout her life with men have only crushed and defeated her, leaving her very depressed, feeling nothing (grey,) worthless and totally all alone. "No shapes sail on the dark deep lake" is a feeling of true despair because she knows there is no hope, no happiness, no future, nothing at all. "And no flags wave me home", she has spent her life trying to finding "the perfect person/life partner" and has ignored all family, friends and relationships who now care nothing about her. "All cats are grey In the caves", she only associates herself with sad, lonely people as herself and feels dead, no feeling at all, "the textures coats my skin". The last three lines, she is alive but feels dead and enclosed in a cell and the single note that "rings on and on and on".....regret, regret for all the choices in life that has now made her life so very sad and so very lonely (grey) that she wishes she was dead. Even though the lyrics are sad this song is incredibly beautiful and I cannot quit listening to it repeatedly!
OMG! I just heard this song for the first time, it is is so beautiful and so very haunting at the same time. I know my thoughts about the lyrics will may not be very well received but are not all songs, poems, literature, written words, etc. open for self interpretation? It is indeed about depression and being in a dark, lonely and hard and very sad place in life but the reason for this is due to being much older and not ever thinking you would be in this particular horrible place, realizing that all of your hopes and dreams have not come true and everyone and everything around you feels lifeless, drab, colorless (grey) phony and stone- like with no feelings at all. "I never thought I would find myself, in bed among the stones." The next lines, "the columns are all men, begging to crush me". This to me, because I am a female, (yes I know this song was written by a male) means all the relationships throughout her life with men have only crushed and defeated her, leaving her very depressed, feeling nothing (grey,) worthless and totally all alone. "No shapes sail on the dark deep lake" is a feeling of true despair because she knows there is no hope, no happiness, no future, nothing at all. "And no flags wave me home", she has spent her life trying to finding "the perfect person/life partner" and has ignored all family, friends and relationships who now care nothing about her. "All cats are grey In the caves", she only associates herself with sad, lonely people as herself and feels dead, no feeling at all, "the textures coats my skin". The last three lines, she is alive but feels dead and enclosed in a cell and the single note that "rings on and on and on".....regret, regret for all the choices in life that has now made her life so very sad and so very lonely (grey) that she wishes she was dead. Even though the lyrics are sad this song is incredibly beautiful and I cannot quit listening to it repeatedly!