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The song is all about the good intentions of the subject going off the rails and creating a disaster. About things getting well out of hand and people getting hurt.

Congratulations on the mess you've made of things/On trying to reconstruct the air and all that brings

The song opens with the first verse consisting of the singer congratulating the subject on creating a disaster of their efforts to do something good.

And oxidation is the compromise you own/But this is beginning to feel like the dog wants a bone

And they did succeed, though not in a way that feels like a victory. The singer assures them that no, they did get what they were after, even if it came at a cost, but also notes that it feels as though this may have been less about the goal and more about the subject.

You force your fire and then you falsify your deeds Your methods dot the disconnect from all your creeds And fortune strives to fill the vacuum that it feeds But this beginning to feel like the dog's lost the lead

The 2nd verse is especially resonant. You do what you think needs doing. You lie about the things you've done. You leave a wake of actions that seem to be in contradiction to the beliefs you profess to have and, while the good you've done tries to fill those gaps you've left, it feels like you lost control of the situation.

This is beginning to feel like the long winded blues of the never This is beginning to feel like it's curling up slowly and finding a throat to choke This is beginning to feel like the long winded blues of the never Barely controlled locomotive consuming the picture and blowing the crows to smoke This is beginning to feel like the long winded blues of the never Static explosion devoted to crushing the broken and shoving their souls to ghost

That feeling you get when you start seeing dominoes fall that you didn't expect. When things you didn't think would go wrong go worse than that. That constant fear that your goals, whatever they were, are never to be and all that’s coming is tragedy. Only consequences. And there’s nothing you can do to reverse it or stop it anymore.

Eternalised. Objectified. You set your sights so high. But this is beginning to feel like the bolt busted loose from the lever

Lofty aspirations you can no longer lock down or hold back. And then it hits you with the real killer line

Never mind Death professor Your structure's fine My dust is better Your victim flies so high All to catch a bird's eye view of who's next

Simultaneously bidding you to forget the concerns you have but in the same breath never letting you distance you yourself from them.

Never you mind Death professor. If love is life, My love is better. Your victim flies so high, Eyes could be the diamonds Confused with who's next

With this verse I have to point out the answer to an unasked question. If I’m associating this song with Rose who, if it were actually in the work, would be singing it. That answer is the internal monologue of PD/Rose. I have to answer that question now because someone else pointed out how well this works as a declaration of the switch over.

This is beginning to feel like the dawn of the loser forever This is beginning to feel like the dawn of the loser forever This is beginning to feel like the dawn of the loser forever This is beginning to feel like the dawn of the loser forever

The repetition of it changes the meaning. A powerful declaration that the underdog is going to have their day slowly fading into a self-castigation of forever being a failure