this song is a perspective of a father who meet his son after abandoning him.

Although I wasn't there
He said I was his friend

(his son don't know this man is his father)

I spoke into his eyes
I thought you died alone
A long long time ago

(father thinking, " I don't know how you survive without me all these years")

(ad his son says)
Oh no, not me
We never lost control (we, he and his mother)

father - You're face to face
With the man who sold the world
(the man who abandon his family)

I laughed and shook his hand
And made my way back home
I searched for form and land
For years and years I roamed
I gazed a gazeless stare
At all the millions here
(he went after money forgetting his family)

I must have died alone died along]
A long, long time ago
(I died long time ago when I leave my family)

Who knows?
Not me
I never lost control

(I was never broke, I was strong with financial, but yet I didn't come to be with you)

Who knows?
Not me
We never lost control

( he has a new wife and family now)

With the man who sold the world