The song is about the singer's need to get away from her life, regardless of what others might think.

You're getting what you've run away from all your life.

Rebecca, as a woman, would never be able to simply walk away from her life.

She walks away from her entire life, takes an apartment and "lives for night, the rest is a blur."

I walked away from my life to follow the path laid out for me!

Hears, beneath the simple words, what else she is telling him, a year and half a world away from her life.

All of these things, and a myriad more besides, stole time away from the young woman's private life.

He tried to think of another question that would keep the conversation away from his own life.

Then one of the others would have a reason for wanting to walk away from his life so he comes out here too.

You didn't walk away from your life unless you had good reason.