No Way Down Lyrics

Lyric discussion by summerteeth99 

Cover art for No Way Down lyrics by Shins, The

The decline of an empire on the grounds of environmental destruction and uneven wage scales. I love the disjointed guitar "solo" in the middle. The narrator is jaded with liberal guilt about the situation. His dad being a government man and all and seemingly part of the problem with "the blood on my hands" lyric. His mother turned away or lost her faith perhaps [born of a "pillar of salt"] Imperialism, slave labor, economic inequality, pollution, who is to blame?