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The speaker is facing life after someone has left and cannot imagine what to do with the time ahead. Ordinary things—people, mornings, nights, even the city—feel empty without this person. The repeated question, “What will I do now?”, conveys shock and helplessness. As the song continues, the speaker imagines trying different ways to endure the loss, but none offers clear relief.

Several images make this emptiness vivid. The speaker has “the whole earth,” yet says it feels small without the loved one: a contrast between possessing everything and feeling that nothing matters. Paris “dying of boredom” and its streets seeming to kill the speaker turn a familiar city into a place of pain. The heart beating “too hard” suggests intense distress, while the image of seeing “the end of the road” in a mirror may hint at a frightening sense of finality.

The speaker’s imagined responses shift between laughter to avoid crying, staying awake through the night, and hatred by morning. These may be emotional extremes rather than firm plans; grief can move between defiance, anger, and despair. The closing claim of having “nothing left to do” sounds bleak, but its exact meaning is ambiguous: it may express exhaustion and emotional surrender without specifying what the speaker will do next.