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Feb 1st 2013!⃝The thing with Linkin Park is that their songs can be seen from heaps of different angles. It's true that, in the booklet for Minutes to Midnight, it actually says this song is about Katrina, but this song can still be seen from different angles.
I always saw this song as bing about depression, which here could be portrayed as water.
'Water gray
Through the windows, up the stairs
Chilling rain
Like an ocean everywhere'
Some of the lines deal with how depression affects heaps of people,they feel hopeless and sometimes 'flooded' with it, and many people know, but don't do anything to help:
'Hope decays
Generations disappear
Washed away
As a nation simply stares
Don't want to reach for me, do you?
I mean nothing to you
The little things give you away
And now there will be no mistaking
The levees are breaking'
With lines like:
'All you've ever wanted
Was someone to truly look up to you
And six feet under water, I do'
It could be about someone who cares about a loved one with depression, but that person can't see that they care because they are so drowned in sadness.
And with the line:
'And six feet underground, now I, now I do' could mean even in death they'll still care
Keeping with this, I believe 'The little things give you away' could mean: even the smallest things can sink you. Like if your depressed, even the slightest negative thing can put you in deeper.
Not sure if that made sense, but thats how I see it
