Maybe I'm a pessimist but I do not see how this is a "light at the end of the tunnel" ending. I realize the line switches to "tomorrow holds such better days" at the end but the LAST LINE OF THE SONG is back to him dreaming about the exact thing that he was talking about past-tense when he was thinking about killing himself.
And, like, anyone who has ever been depressed knows that the possibility of future good things just makes you feel worse/guilty, so this song does not end happily in my mind. I feel like the last stanza is said mockingly---"oh yeah, right, it'll get better" ---but he's still GONNA GO SPEND TIME IN HIS ROOM ALONE and we know what that means.
Maybe I'm a pessimist but I do not see how this is a "light at the end of the tunnel" ending. I realize the line switches to "tomorrow holds such better days" at the end but the LAST LINE OF THE SONG is back to him dreaming about the exact thing that he was talking about past-tense when he was thinking about killing himself.
And, like, anyone who has ever been depressed knows that the possibility of future good things just makes you feel worse/guilty, so this song does not end happily in my mind. I feel like the last stanza is said mockingly---"oh yeah, right, it'll get better" ---but he's still GONNA GO SPEND TIME IN HIS ROOM ALONE and we know what that means.