There's an underlying problem that no one can see: "So you got in a kind of trouble that nobody knows." To interpret this song you have to work off of this idea -- that your troubles cannot be seen by others. What others see, in stark contrast, is you "coming up roses everywhere you go." They see you succeeding. Everywhere you go things are working out. But all this success is prone to collapse if the "trouble that nobody knows" comes out. In a sense, you're bound to everyone's misperception of you, and you become a distorted version of your ideal self. What exists in the void created by the differentiation between your distorted self and your ideal self? But these ideas are expressed at the end of the song. From here, we have to work backward to attempt to answer the question I have raised, among many others that many others have certainly raised. Unfortunately, the lyrics at the front end of the song lend themselves to so many different interpretations it's startling. (Meaning, I'm not yet ready to go there.)
There's an underlying problem that no one can see: "So you got in a kind of trouble that nobody knows." To interpret this song you have to work off of this idea -- that your troubles cannot be seen by others. What others see, in stark contrast, is you "coming up roses everywhere you go." They see you succeeding. Everywhere you go things are working out. But all this success is prone to collapse if the "trouble that nobody knows" comes out. In a sense, you're bound to everyone's misperception of you, and you become a distorted version of your ideal self. What exists in the void created by the differentiation between your distorted self and your ideal self? But these ideas are expressed at the end of the song. From here, we have to work backward to attempt to answer the question I have raised, among many others that many others have certainly raised. Unfortunately, the lyrics at the front end of the song lend themselves to so many different interpretations it's startling. (Meaning, I'm not yet ready to go there.)