Let Down and Hanging around!

Let Down is indeed a sumptuous track.

This was the first album I got really into. 16 at the time, scared to pieces of the thought of growing up and needing to work at some point.

It had so many prescient lyrics:

doing all the 'right' things, "eating well" and "getting on better with your associate employee contemporaries", only to be left "a pig in a cage on antibiotics" 

"I'll take a handshake of carbon monoxide"

"such a pretty house and such a pretty garden" - and yet what good are they if there's no joy in that life?

The "I" in Climbing Up the Walls seemed to me to represent depression:

I [depression] am the key to the lock in your house
That keeps your toys in the basement
And if you get too far inside [your own head/being]
You'll only see my reflection

In recent years, when I've reflected on the album many of the songs seem to tread the line between acceptance and resignation.

The most cheery track I think is Subterranean Homesick Alien.

Let Down is indeed a sumptuous track.

This was the first album I got really into. 16 at the time, scared to pieces of the thought of growing up and needing to work at some point.

It had so many prescient lyrics:

doing all the 'right' things, "eating well" and "getting on better with your associate employee contemporaries", only to be left "a pig in a cage on antibiotics" 

"I'll take a handshake of carbon monoxide"

"such a pretty house and such a pretty garden" - and yet what good are they if there's no joy in that life?

The "I" in Climbing Up the Walls seemed to me to represent depression:

I [depression] am the key to the lock in your house
That keeps your toys in the basement
And if you get too far inside [your own head/being]
You'll only see my reflection

In recent years, when I've reflected on the album many of the songs seem to tread the line between acceptance and resignation.

The most cheery track I think is Subterranean Homesick Alien.

For me this is their most cheerful track.