the line, "canaries in the mines" speaks to me because there is an old song by the police called "canary in a coalmine" and it's all about paranoid people and how they can't live their lives because they're blinded by fear, and i think that this is relevant because he feels like this with his friends/lovers, that he's so clouded by his feelings that he can't think rationally, and i think that's the meaning of this song, like sprouting wings is not a rational solution to fix things, and he mentions ghosts in the chorus, and there is no proof that they're real either.
the line, "canaries in the mines" speaks to me because there is an old song by the police called "canary in a coalmine" and it's all about paranoid people and how they can't live their lives because they're blinded by fear, and i think that this is relevant because he feels like this with his friends/lovers, that he's so clouded by his feelings that he can't think rationally, and i think that's the meaning of this song, like sprouting wings is not a rational solution to fix things, and he mentions ghosts in the chorus, and there is no proof that they're real either.