Given to Fly Lyrics

Lyric discussion by kidcodea 

Cover art for Given to Fly lyrics by Pearl Jam

imho, i think this is about surfing, and how it's such a good stress reliever. you can see it "the key to the locks on his chains he saw everywhere" is akin to arriving at the beach and finding good waves, and the rest of the song is pretty graphic too, but maybe i'm oversimplifying