As I've been following this artist around for several years through media, I came to a kind of different interpretation of this song: In my opinion Shadow Days is a song about officially going gay. He's been hiding it for a long time (as many celebrities do) and now finally stepped out of his shadow, facing the truth. You can see it in the gay codes he's wearing lately. Born&Raised is the beginning of a new life, accepting himself being gay and finally being able to feel real love.
I doubt that, but to be fair there is one other thing that could be taken as evidence for your theory: "If I ever get around to living / I'm gonna put my things away / In the drawers and in the closets / And there I'll stay, stay"
The "in the closet" metaphor is very often used to describe those who are gay but not open about it. However, in that he's saying that if he finally gets around to living, he'll stay in the closet, whereas from your theory I'd have guessed that he'd say that if he finally...
I doubt that, but to be fair there is one other thing that could be taken as evidence for your theory: "If I ever get around to living / I'm gonna put my things away / In the drawers and in the closets / And there I'll stay, stay"
The "in the closet" metaphor is very often used to describe those who are gay but not open about it. However, in that he's saying that if he finally gets around to living, he'll stay in the closet, whereas from your theory I'd have guessed that he'd say that if he finally gets around to living he would finally leave the closet.
As I've been following this artist around for several years through media, I came to a kind of different interpretation of this song: In my opinion Shadow Days is a song about officially going gay. He's been hiding it for a long time (as many celebrities do) and now finally stepped out of his shadow, facing the truth. You can see it in the gay codes he's wearing lately. Born&Raised is the beginning of a new life, accepting himself being gay and finally being able to feel real love.
I doubt that, but to be fair there is one other thing that could be taken as evidence for your theory: "If I ever get around to living / I'm gonna put my things away / In the drawers and in the closets / And there I'll stay, stay" The "in the closet" metaphor is very often used to describe those who are gay but not open about it. However, in that he's saying that if he finally gets around to living, he'll stay in the closet, whereas from your theory I'd have guessed that he'd say that if he finally...
I doubt that, but to be fair there is one other thing that could be taken as evidence for your theory: "If I ever get around to living / I'm gonna put my things away / In the drawers and in the closets / And there I'll stay, stay" The "in the closet" metaphor is very often used to describe those who are gay but not open about it. However, in that he's saying that if he finally gets around to living, he'll stay in the closet, whereas from your theory I'd have guessed that he'd say that if he finally gets around to living he would finally leave the closet.