Let Down

A lot has been said about this song and me adding whatever meaning I have for it feels like pissing in the ocean at this point. I just don't feel anything uplifting about this song and those who do are grasping for it. The central portion is not "I'm gonna grow wings," it's "let down and hanging around, crushed like a bug in the ground," it's about being in an absolute pit and finding profundity in that. The "wings" part to me speaks of a protagonist who is wistful about "one day" rising out of his hole and finding his way back to a functional life but at the moment simply not being there. On another note, lets not forget this song follows Exit Music, which is complete depressing rock-bottom (it may be an exit music for a film, but it can also be seen as an exit to life, a suicide song). This song is extreme and an outburst compared to Exit Music, perhaps it is the first breath of new life after overcoming suicidal tendencies and coming to terms with the awfulness of whatever the protagonist is going through, a way of assessing the damage (shell's smashed, juices flowing, wings twitch, legs are going). This song might be the first step out of a deep pit, but it's still inside it, well and truly.