"a life is time, they teach you growing up"
Here I believe he is making a statement leading into the next two lines. Growing up we get the impression that we have what sounds like forever, a "lifetime," to live. After this first line, I picture him shaking his head as he prepares to educate us with the next two lines:
"the seconds ticking killed us all
a million years before the fall"
Time took our last breath long before a mistep off a cliffs edge.
Regarding the title of the song, I believe he is saying that you spend your whole life trying to earn money for the life you dream of leading. One day, years in the future, you have that money, but the dreams you've waited for (the phone), is broken because you waited so long. All you can do is stare at the money in your hand you spent your whole life earning in hopes of making that call (your dream life), but its too late to make it and the time you had was wasted.
"a life is time, they teach you growing up" Here I believe he is making a statement leading into the next two lines. Growing up we get the impression that we have what sounds like forever, a "lifetime," to live. After this first line, I picture him shaking his head as he prepares to educate us with the next two lines: "the seconds ticking killed us all a million years before the fall" Time took our last breath long before a mistep off a cliffs edge.
Regarding the title of the song, I believe he is saying that you spend your whole life trying to earn money for the life you dream of leading. One day, years in the future, you have that money, but the dreams you've waited for (the phone), is broken because you waited so long. All you can do is stare at the money in your hand you spent your whole life earning in hopes of making that call (your dream life), but its too late to make it and the time you had was wasted.