Lyric discussion by Chemi 

Cover art for Wings lyrics by Matt Nathanson

I think this song is about a girl (whether it's from her POV or she saying it to him) and how she's feeling at the end of a relationship. She says that she finds herself falling a lot, which I think means she having trouble being happy and herself like the way she used to be when breath was easy, when they were together. But somehow she keeps onto the hope that one of these times when she's falling he'll be there to catch her. He'll come back to her and be her net and catch her and be there for her in her hard time just like he used to be. But of course he doesn't do that, he doesn't come back and catch her, so she's drowning in her loss and depression. I think in the second part of the song she's voicing her bitterness towards him and how he's like other men. How they all seem to promise all those pretty things like love, stability, and forever, but like the men before them they all end up leaving her in the end and she's left broken after believing in their promises. But she still wishes that he would come back to her in the end and he still doesn't.

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