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Mar 23rd 2016!⃝This song echos back to the very first track (Breathe) of the album with the lines "All that you touch" / "All that you see", and also expands upon them...
1. It sings of basic economy: "give/ deal/ buy/ beg, borrow, or steal"
2. It also sings of other things people do in life (aside from economy), like all that you "love / hate / create / destroy" (referring to both people and material things).
3. It not only sings of "concrete" actions (like creation and buying), but abstract acts like interaction: "everyone you meet"...
4. The most abstract (I think) deals with time (which gets its own song on the album) where *this* song simply says "All that is now / All that is gone / All that is to come" ... this sings of people's capacity to think/discuss about past/present/future.
If you put all of the above together, it sings of general human experience, and the song concludes with "Everything under the sun is tune" (there is some cosmic order to human life... even if we don't understand it all!)
However (eventually), "the sun is eclipsed by the moon" meaning each of us will die (inevitably).
Yeah, rather depressing if you look at it negatively (nothing you can do about it)... but that is life (and could you call it life if there is no death?)...
Metaphysics aside, I choose to look on the positive side (reflect on the very first song, "Breathe")... cherish every moment of your life and make the most of it (because someday it will be gone).
