From the album Ö
This is a breakup song where the narrator insists they're the wounded party while revealing they're the one who left. The penthouse/sidewalk image gives away the whole game: they see themselves as elevated, untouchable, already gone, while the other person is stuck below in the mess. The song wants you to feel bad for someone who walked out and then made it the other person's fault.
Feel what I feel, what I feel / It's alone, monotone souvenir
The speaker demands you feel their feelings, then describes those feelings as flat and empty. The contradiction is the point: they're insisting on emotional intensity while admitting to numbness, which means the performance matters more than what's actually happening inside.
Run unseen, submarine unfound, yeah / Over time, realign, unbound
Submarine unfound is a perfect self-description for someone who wants to disappear but also wants credit for how deep and hidden they are. The 'yeah' after 'unfound' sounds like they're proud of it, like being impossible to reach is an achievement.
I'm in the penthouse slipping away / You're on the sidewalk down in the rain
This is the narrator's blindspot. They think this image makes them the tragic figure escaping, but it actually reveals they see themselves as inherently above the other person. Not just physically distant but hierarchically superior, which undercuts their pose as the one who got hurt.
You took my heart just to give it away
The speaker blames the other for taking and discarding their heart, but earlier they said 'I stay gone' and 'slipping away.' They left. They're the one doing the discarding. The song wants you to miss that reversal, to accept the narrator's version where they're the victim of abandonment they caused.
Gonna leave, and baby, I stay gone / Keep alive, every day goes on
Future tense shifts to present perfect: 'gonna leave' becomes 'I stay gone,' meaning it already happened. But then 'keep alive, every day goes on' admits they're still here, still functioning, which contradicts the dramatic exit they just claimed. They can't decide if they vanished or just... continued existing somewhere else.
What sticks is the gap between what the narrator thinks they're saying and what they're actually revealing. They want you to hear a song about someone who got their heart stolen. What you actually get is someone who left, blamed the person they left, and still needs to be seen as the one who suffered more. The penthouse/sidewalk image is maybe the most honest thing in the song, and they don't even realize it.