I used to listen to this song a lot when I was in my later teenage years. It was my favorite song on the album. I would say a part of music's artistic value is the ability to interpret its imagery, poetry and emotional tones to your own life and subjective experience, right? The "one wing wasn't even enough to leave" line always resonated with me so heavily as that's how I had been feeling for years on end in a symbolic sense. I was sick of my verbally and emotionally abusive parents who constantly scapegoated me and the shitty small town I lived in that had terrible and toxic social dynamics. I was heavily bullied by schoolmates and by people I once called my friend. I did nothing to these people. I felt like my will to leave was just one wing, but it wasn't enough. My mother made it impossible for me to leave, I couldn't get a job, let alone a car, she was ruining my efforts of trying to succeed at community college.. and on and on.. I guess I'm saying the other wing to me was the practical side of getting free.. money, possessions, etc. I did not have that other wing to escape the jar, a.k.a. the present situation I was in.
I used to listen to this song a lot when I was in my later teenage years. It was my favorite song on the album. I would say a part of music's artistic value is the ability to interpret its imagery, poetry and emotional tones to your own life and subjective experience, right? The "one wing wasn't even enough to leave" line always resonated with me so heavily as that's how I had been feeling for years on end in a symbolic sense. I was sick of my verbally and emotionally abusive parents who constantly scapegoated me and the shitty small town I lived in that had terrible and toxic social dynamics. I was heavily bullied by schoolmates and by people I once called my friend. I did nothing to these people. I felt like my will to leave was just one wing, but it wasn't enough. My mother made it impossible for me to leave, I couldn't get a job, let alone a car, she was ruining my efforts of trying to succeed at community college.. and on and on.. I guess I'm saying the other wing to me was the practical side of getting free.. money, possessions, etc. I did not have that other wing to escape the jar, a.k.a. the present situation I was in.