Loneliness. Back then when he wrote the song, lots of things were different. Imagine, rents being low in Los Angles! Moving away from family and friends to establish new people in your life involves starting off new and lonely. At times you question yourself, should I move back to familarity or follow your dreams. It's a person caught between following your dreams which sometimes meaning leaving the familiar and comfortableness of life. And lonliness because there you have to start making friends again.