"kill" your spirit, allow it to depart from reality, day by day, little by little, and to retreat into a secluded dream land, in which your spirit, your thoughts, can live in their own alternate reality for as long as you can sustain your body. Once the realization that you have been living a "wrong story" becomes solid inside you and you know that you no more have the stamina, the willpower to change your story, which manifests as a feeling that you "no more have time left", you are faced with the prospect of ending your suffering by terminating yourself. by turning yourself into "part of the furniture". Quietstorm from Greecein an attempt to respond to the wonderful comment by Richard from Tigard, I would add that in my view this song is actually about how to avoid suicide.Torrpuppy from Auburn WaJeez, I think you nailed it.This guy always wanted to be someone, but he got stuck taking the long way home so now it's even difficult for him being ordinary: "So, when the day comes to settle down, Who's to blame if you're not around? You took the long way home." "He looks through the years and see what he could have been, what might have been, if he'd had more time." - Time is always to blame when we want to do something, but don't. Does it feel that you life's become a catastrophe? Oh, it has to be for you to grow, boy." - This is the phase of our lives when we accept the fact that we'll never be what we wanted and become ordinary, we take it very hard, but we grow into it. And then his wife seems to think he's losing his sanity. "When he's up on the stage, it's so unbelievable, unforgettable, how they adore him. "But there are times that he feels he's part of the scenery, all the greenery is comin' down" - It seems that in real life he's "the joke of the neighborhood" ("why should you care if you're feeling good" is him trying to rationalize) and his wife "seems to this that he's a part of the furniture." In real life he "never sees what he wants to see."
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