While the song isn’t optimistic about reinvention, it does capture the reality and vulnerability of starting over. The person in the song didn’t choose to change; the change happened to her — and now she has to learn humility, resilience, and authenticity.
It’s not quite a song about voluntarily leaving your field of expertise — it’s more a cautionary tale or brutal look at what happens when everything you thought defined you is gone, and you’re left to discover who you really are.