Yeah wow, just brutally honest lyrics but I don’t know, it just seems strange, like he is ignoring the spirit aspect of a person. He should have wrote I won’t miss you when my mind is gone but I will love you forever when I’m gone might have been a better way to put it. It’s just a weird song that’s all I’m saying, like someone who has lung cancer singing “I can’t breathe”.
Yes, but his brain is damaged, and maybe he’s telling us, that’s the way it feels inside. Maybe you are picking up on that spiritual flatness, that devastation.
Maybe, Glen just truly sang what was left for him to sing. I think what you have perceived is what makes his last song to his family and the world, so tragically beautiful.
If or when you ever get the unfortunate task of caring for someone with dementia, whatever the cause, you will often see their frustration and anger over the condition.
I saw the lyrics as Glenn’s way of expressing that in a form that the listener might understand.
It is in a very real way, a mourning song about that loss of memories, as it applies to his soon to be forgotten loves and life it’s self.