Lyric discussion by AndreaStewart1685 

The first thing I thought of when I heard these lines...

"I feel like I've been living in A city with no children in it A garden left for ruin by a millionaire inside Of a private prison"

was a possible reference to The Secret Garden, the novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett.

Or Oscar Wilde's The Selfish Giant?

I thought selfish giant reference the moment I saw it. It would kinda fit with the general message of the song being that the singer mourns the loss of innocence, love and simple aesthetic enjoyment from his life and the world around him.

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