Not meaning to be critical here, but knowing what a lyricist intended (much like knowing what a novelist or poet intended) takes away the meaning that the line had for me, or the meaning that has grown over the years. The power of lyrics & poetry comes from what we bring to the writer's words and imagery.

I personally don't want Baerwald to explain some of these things. In my mind, Lucas Riley is an amalgamation of a few people that I knew, and if DB explains who Riley was to him, it changes the whole thing.