46&2

The first verse deals directly with the Jungian concept of the Shadow, or anti-self. The song proposes that by exploring and knowing ourselves
truly, our potentials both good and bad, we can be stronger, capable of clearer thought and higher consciousness.The idea of digging though muscles works as a metaphor for getting inside one’s self, ‘old muscles’ and ‘muscle memory’ make elegant reference to unconscious learning, things that are felt rather than thought.
This stanza illustrates well the idea that journeying within the self and ultimately confronting of the parts of ourselves we deny isn’t an easy task. What can he find to open up everything he hides and is afraid of in himself?