I think this song is about how as children or young adults we observe adults being tired and unhappy. Beat down by the world they are forced to live in. You say you won't end up like them you'll take the quiet life instead but just like everyone else you are forced to grow up and go to work and live a life that will lead you to be beat down just like everyone else. Once you see that this will be your future you have your final fit your final bellyache with no alarms and no surpises (no stress of doing the 9 to 5 and all the responsibilities) note the silence part too, it's the last time without alarms or surprises, the last time there will be silence. You give in (or up) and get a crappy job that you hate like everyone else and get the house and the garden but it doesn't matter because your still beat down like everyone else. A sad song about a miserable world that is too tired to change anything. Who has the time anyway?
I think this song is about how as children or young adults we observe adults being tired and unhappy. Beat down by the world they are forced to live in. You say you won't end up like them you'll take the quiet life instead but just like everyone else you are forced to grow up and go to work and live a life that will lead you to be beat down just like everyone else. Once you see that this will be your future you have your final fit your final bellyache with no alarms and no surpises (no stress of doing the 9 to 5 and all the responsibilities) note the silence part too, it's the last time without alarms or surprises, the last time there will be silence. You give in (or up) and get a crappy job that you hate like everyone else and get the house and the garden but it doesn't matter because your still beat down like everyone else. A sad song about a miserable world that is too tired to change anything. Who has the time anyway?