Memorial address has a deeper meaning than we thought?

[dreamland2.0]

^I think those lyrics exactly fit the meaning for her father. The fact that she never knew him, IS emotional.
She and her father probably were close when she was young and after he left, she didn't here from him again.
She's saying that the only thing she can remember about him are just memories from her past, and she never remembered him as a person.
And of course the next stanza could simply be a representation of what she was feeling, in a lyrical way.

I think I like the father meaning, it makes the lyrics very heartbreaking.