That line "One day I am gonna grow wings" sounds so much to me like everyone's internal thoughts. You're going nowhere, you've done shit-all, you feel hopeless, useless, etc., but there's some little bit in the back of your mind telling you that one day something big will happen and you'll be successful. You have no proof of it, you've got nothing to show toward it, but that voice is there. I think this line sort of says how everyone feels, despite their uselessness, that they will one day do something great, or become rich, or famous, just out of nowhere. But they likely won't. That's how I felt one night when I was driving. Thom sung this line and all my hope came crashing down. Everyone thinks they'll make it somewhere, but looking around, looking at all the stalled cars, most of us are barely there at all. I just started bawling. Couldn't see the streetlights clearly. I don't know how people get uplifted by this song, I take that "uplifting" line to be a statement about my false sense of hope. It kills me.
That line "One day I am gonna grow wings" sounds so much to me like everyone's internal thoughts. You're going nowhere, you've done shit-all, you feel hopeless, useless, etc., but there's some little bit in the back of your mind telling you that one day something big will happen and you'll be successful. You have no proof of it, you've got nothing to show toward it, but that voice is there. I think this line sort of says how everyone feels, despite their uselessness, that they will one day do something great, or become rich, or famous, just out of nowhere. But they likely won't. That's how I felt one night when I was driving. Thom sung this line and all my hope came crashing down. Everyone thinks they'll make it somewhere, but looking around, looking at all the stalled cars, most of us are barely there at all. I just started bawling. Couldn't see the streetlights clearly. I don't know how people get uplifted by this song, I take that "uplifting" line to be a statement about my false sense of hope. It kills me.