This song is simple; it is about a man who is willing to face reality, while the person he is singing to is not.

These themes are present throughout the song. He wants to be "let at the truth" while being tied to a post and seeing harsh reality- widows and orphans- which the other subject is in denial of.

The speaker has experienced the life of denial, he "knows the shame" in the defeat of denial, but is now beyond that he has "other things to fill my time".

He knows it is painful to see the truth- "I will find strength in pain", but he wants to see it nonetheless, as it will "refresh my broken mind".
Unlike the other in the song. He now wants to answer to his name- to who he really is, unlike the other in the song, who is still in denial of himself.

He has changed his ways of denial, and hopes the other will do so as well. He is willing to help him, as evidenced by the phrase "And I will will hold on hope, and I won't let you choke on the noose around your neck". He does not want the other person to suffer and die in denial.

Even when the other person comes out of his cave to see reality, it is still distorted by the fact that he sees the world upside down and refuses to accept the way things are.

The allusion to the Odyssey; "so make your sirens call..." refers to the temptation felt by the singer toward the life of denial which the other lives in. It is an easier life, one where he does not have to face the hard truths and face pain. it is difficult to deny that life, as difficult as sailors facing the Sirens in ancient Greece.