Yes I agree this could be to a parent or someone that cared for him.
The picture it paints is of someone who could either settle for the uneventful, domestic life at home or could go out there in the world and expose himself to worldly pain, excess, pleasures & risks from which he is being protected. He finds himself "in shackles" trapped in the domestic life, longing for the outside and leaves to experiment without regards of who he is leaving behind and returns when things get overbearing. He eventually makes the decision to leave permanently and learns the way of that outside tricky manipulative world and he becomes it. In this song he returns to make his peace but takes time to caution that he is part of that world and that his words could be manipulative as well. "Before you take this song as truth, you should wonder what I'm taking from you." He is "selling his fears" so he is using his emotion to gain that person's favor and without offering to change or return. He is asking to be accepted the way he is, even if he is hurtful.
Yes I agree this could be to a parent or someone that cared for him.
The picture it paints is of someone who could either settle for the uneventful, domestic life at home or could go out there in the world and expose himself to worldly pain, excess, pleasures & risks from which he is being protected. He finds himself "in shackles" trapped in the domestic life, longing for the outside and leaves to experiment without regards of who he is leaving behind and returns when things get overbearing. He eventually makes the decision to leave permanently and learns the way of that outside tricky manipulative world and he becomes it. In this song he returns to make his peace but takes time to caution that he is part of that world and that his words could be manipulative as well. "Before you take this song as truth, you should wonder what I'm taking from you." He is "selling his fears" so he is using his emotion to gain that person's favor and without offering to change or return. He is asking to be accepted the way he is, even if he is hurtful.