Jordan Simpson to me, it's about the writer's past and mental health. "Distance rules everything around me" could be metaphorical for the separation said health created, or it could be literal and he's separated from everything he knew. This is just personal theory, however.
@@jacobemunsell2064Shaun stated that distance means the separation between him and the people around him who have died or separated. He were having depression to cope with the lost of his loved ones
