I think its about how people get depressed, but without any real physical reason, ie. people have enough to eat, health, family, money, security etc, but still there is something about modern life that doesn't make us happy and leaves us kind of numb/detached without being responsible for our own actions.
The chorus, he can't shake this depressive feeling, but he's questioning how it could be when there is nothing really wrong with his life: "have I been in the wars?", and he hasn't really been exposed to true misery: "The saddest thing that I'd ever seen
Were smokers outside the hospital doors"...
The first two verses are maybe some kind of attempt to get some emotion/feeling- like a test to bring it out- like in Fightclub where people kick crap out of each other just to feel something.
I think its about how people get depressed, but without any real physical reason, ie. people have enough to eat, health, family, money, security etc, but still there is something about modern life that doesn't make us happy and leaves us kind of numb/detached without being responsible for our own actions. The chorus, he can't shake this depressive feeling, but he's questioning how it could be when there is nothing really wrong with his life: "have I been in the wars?", and he hasn't really been exposed to true misery: "The saddest thing that I'd ever seen Were smokers outside the hospital doors"...
The first two verses are maybe some kind of attempt to get some emotion/feeling- like a test to bring it out- like in Fightclub where people kick crap out of each other just to feel something.