Glass Ceiling Lyrics

Lyric discussion by Blindfishbaby 

Cover art for Glass Ceiling lyrics by Metric

I think the song is about rebeling against the mundane life. The glass ceiling is our confinement and as long as it's there we can never escape. If you break the glass ceiling you're going to get cut "lose your arms, amputate plasticine", but if you don't do it no one else will "there's no knight in silver armor shining". Finally the last part of the song reminds me of crowded streets (think of Tokyo) everyone is moving but it seems there never really going anywhere. THey have no were else to go it's the only way they know "we can't leave it's the last road open" and finally "everyspeed on our knees is crawling" that right there sums it up. As long as you are on your knees you aren't making any progress because no matter how fast you go when your on your knees it's always considered crawling.