Sometimes, the best answer is a more interesting question.
Just because something is a metaphor doesn't mean it can't be real.
You can't trust folk songs. They always sneak up on you.
...inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened.
Some things are fairly obvious when it's a seven-foot skeleton with a scythe telling you them.
What is normal? Normal was yesterday. If you lose a leg, one day you're hopping around on one leg, so you know the difference.