My Body Is A Cage (Arcade Fire cover) Lyrics

Lyric discussion by CrazyHuman 

Cover art for My Body Is A Cage (Arcade Fire cover) lyrics by Peter Gabriel

I feel this song is about someone who is a paraplegic or someone who can’t move anymore but their brain is still sane and they’re depressed because they can’t do what they once could and they want to use their mind but it’s hard because their body won’t let them speak and I feel like at the end they’re tired of life being a prisoner in their own body and they’re pleading to be set free :(

It’s depressing to me because my Nana got a kind of dementia where she lost control of her body before she lost her mind and I can’t imagine how terrible that would have been for her as she was a prisoner in her own body...losing the ability to hold things, walk, sit, feed herself etc..while still being sane. :(

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