Ultralight - Roddy. B

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This song has many different layers, depending on how deep you allow yourself to be emerged into the song.

It can be seen as the simple story of a guy that has a certain thing that he wants to achieve, a difficult task and, while he works hard on it, he sometimes breaks down and during those times he finds out his usual coping mechanisms don't work anymore so he focuses on the "reward" afterward, the good times with friends and the parties.

It can also be seen as the story of a guy that no longer finds joy or sees beauty in his life, nor in the things and people around him. He needs to keep working hard on the goals he's aiming for in order to keep his sanity, while feeling the good memories of the past starting to fade as they would have been of a past life. He finds out that even the coping mechanisms to "go on" are starting to fail so he is being left with the sadness and bitter taste of it all and so he cries out for someone to understand his pain.

Or it can be seen at an even bigger scale:
There's this guy that has awakened to his "condition" - of having had coping mechanisms to tame down desires, aspirations, and dreams, to fit into a box society has designed for him. And while he unspokenly decides to leave that box, he sees the world and people around him and how everybody is blindly going on the hamster wheel, not stopping for a moment, desiring beautiful happy moments yet "having to" work a whole year to get to them. He sees in them an older, unawake version of himself. He lifted the veil and now sees the construct of the wheel, the uselessness of running on it, the potential mental illnesses arising from running on it, the fake joy that it produces and it scares him beyond fear, into helplessness. He is burdened by the heaviness of the change he is undergoing but he knows he will come better out of it so he's determined to go through it. However, even more so, he is burdened by the sadness that the majority out there wouldn't make the same decision he did.

With 3 or more layers, this song, like every piece of art, briefly makes the auditor feel the struggle, love, sadness, pain, despair, and determination of the story's subject.

It's strong, and starts out on a strong note which is also the summary of the song 
"I try my best to be happy but I find it hard".

Is it a cry out? Maybe.
Is it someone's cry out regarding themselves or one to force us to look inside? That's for each of you to say :)

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