Without getting politically shipper/non-shipper I will concur with some else who posted that Treason is pointedly written about/for Stevie. The "years ago I was low, why should I care" is telling because I think he's speaking of how he felt left behind emotionally and recognizes and has compassion for this person who's going through it now. "They said you weren't there" The choice of words are unconvincing to LB that the person is acutally not there with the use of "They said". He might see through the lie and also reconnect to his feelings about how they lost the ability to communicate with each other with all that was going on around them.
I also think the dominant theme of the song is about embracing your own death as a way to reconnect to the past;
Behind garden walls I search for you
Saw your face full of grace searching for me
Sounds like afterlife fantasy and oh so well written.
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