This interpretation only works if you allow that some of the lyrics might have been adjusted slightly to make it sound more like a love song (because the “original” lyrics were too depressing :-).
Rain = sadness, depression May never end = overwhelming depression, threatening survival (I have to do something or I’ll kill myself) shore = reality (experienced by child) dream ,,, out to sea = unreality (fictions of the adult world, finances, politics, economics) forever more = once you close your soul to the magic of the world that a child knows, you become an adult and there is no going back close your eyes = no longer see the true beauty of the world neath the waves = waves of sadness cave of hours = darkness of depression, makes time slow to a crawl, also night is cave of hours? long forgotten now = the depression that threatens survival is repressed because it is too painful, so is forgotten by us adults, we even deny it ever happened to us we’re all alone = I’m all alone – the peculiar experience of teenage depression close the window = on the real world calm the light = no longer see the magic of the world, see only physical things and it will be alright = depression will end, self will survive let it out = cry let it all begin = let it all end (I suspect the lyric was changed; notice END rhymes better!) learn how to pretend = be like an adult (as seen by a teenage child who first realises the corruption of the world, poverty, injustice, and adults pretending its all ok) can’t help but grow old = once through the crisis, life is empty, just going to grow old; need to fill it up with something … cast..to the wind = waste the rest of your life pursuing sex, money, power, … anything so long as it distracts you from what you’ve lost hold me dear = try and fill the void by looking for love
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So the big changes would be: Let it all end I’m all alone
I expect no-one to agree with this interpretation. That’s ok. i would have thought so myself until I read Species in Denial by Jeremy Griffith. Now I think this song is what he calls a “Resignation Anthem”
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