This is about the need for personal reinvention. The speaker is pretty desperate for an influx of new ideas and energy in his life, and his search for "a new name for everything" is a metaphor for his attempt to reconfigure how he approaches his life. I think it's about how language, and specifically poetry, have helped the singer think about his own life in different ways and defeat the stagnation and despair depicted in the song.
This is about the need for personal reinvention. The speaker is pretty desperate for an influx of new ideas and energy in his life, and his search for "a new name for everything" is a metaphor for his attempt to reconfigure how he approaches his life. I think it's about how language, and specifically poetry, have helped the singer think about his own life in different ways and defeat the stagnation and despair depicted in the song.