My Misunderstanding

"I liked that particular image and it just gave me ideas straight away. I could see a story. It looked tragic. The flowers were sad, rather than happy. I immediately pictured the event being in the past, a long time in the past.

The story of the song is the story of a young couple. She decides to go overseas and while she's travelling, he takes his own life thinking that that's the end of the relationship. Only the thing is she realises as soon as she's left that it was a mistake and she wants to go back but by then it was too late."