The song is about introspection and looking within one's self for true and proper meaning.

I had left her only the evening before, so fully, so firmly resolved within my self on doing right!

And they would only get stronger, magnified within her own self.

It had to be invented within one's self.

He should believe that God is near him, rather within his self, and not far away.

Other times she held them close and made them safe within her enormous self.

It's palpable within my physical self like an allergic reaction.

Happiness lies within one's self, and the way to dig it out is cocaine.

It is not enough to know within one's self that one is in the right" (170).

And then I felt a thrill of recognition within my inner self.