Cheers Kevin. My band does a version of a song - another I wrote around the same time as this one. A faster rockier version. I always introduce it as a “cheerful upbeat song about waiting to die”. It seems I have a habit of being too cheerful about death. 
But then… who’s to say death isn’t a happy ending? 
As it happens just today I’ve finished an all new, and much darker version of that song for my new album project.
Thanks.
I played that solo back in 2004… and I’m not really much of a guitarist so as you might image I had to do a zillion takes before I had something usable. You wont getting anything overly flash or technical out of me! But I try to come up with something tasteful, and appropriate, that’s within my limited lead playing capablilties. 