This song is basically just about how life in general is just a big disappointment for him and he has lost all belief that life is at all worthwhile, but he still can remeber some of the good times before when he still had optimism toward life. And then in the song he says how like life is just a long wait for a hospital stay cause many people end up in the hospital and then die, and all their life before that was just leading up to that. Its really a sort of depressing song when you think about it but that doesn't stop me from loving it, its just so touching even if its in a sad way, I think anyways. And ya if it reminds you of someone that you loved that makes it even better.