Having read all the comments so far, I thought now would be a good time to give my take on these lyrics and how they came about.
Firstly let me say that when I penned them, I did not have in mind a main protagonist who ultimately commits suicide. I understand how many people have now come to interpret the lyrics in that way and it makes me feel a little uneasy that the lyrics could have a detrimental effect on someone reading/listening to them.
The lyrics in truth are a very condensed expression of the feelings I listen to most days in the job I do working with very vulnerable young people with some serious mental health and psychological problems problems. They talk to me about the dark places they go to, about the feelings of ending it all, about the sense of hopelessness etc. After 25 years doing this kind of work and working with hundreds of young people, it is only a tiny almost imperceptible percent who ultimately took their own lives, but each and everyone one of them had the kind of feelings contained in the lyrics. I think my intention was to simply highlight and express some of those feelings without it becoming a pro suicide song.
Now with hindsight after looking at some of the comments, I may have to concede I got it wrong and I was seriously considering taking the lyrics down.
However, I am grateful for Cramers input who has managed to explain clearly what I have been unable to explain and his example of
'Can't live if living is without you' helps me feel a little more comfortable about what I've written.
The lyrics will still remain open to interpretation and it's not my intention to try and change anyone's interpretation, but I thought it important to clarify where I was coming from when I wrote it.