Meaning Of The Song 'Radioactive'

In the song “Radioactive” by Imagine dragons is about a time in prison with hard physical labor. The song has more than just one meaning, one is the hard physical labor of a prisoner and the second one is an uprising getting back into reality from prison. At the beginning stanza of the song the lead vocalist Dan Reynolds sing “ I wipe my brow and sweat my rust” (Line 6) which means very hard physical labor and abuse from instructions or other personals. This line means a lot to people who have been in prison or had to do hard work before. Dan says in lines 9 and 22 “I'm waking up, I feel it in my bones” meaning that a person is coming back to reality from prison or have an illness that made a person leave reality. One reason why this line is