Reply To: Now I’m a arsonist
I’ve talked about it in another thread, but I’m getting serious Icarus-vibes from it. You know, flying too close to the sun, catching fire and plummeting to rocky death back on Earth. Possibly burning up in the atmosphere, come to that.
The twist kind of feels like that it’s that this character really didn’t WANT to fly too close to the sun, didn’t want to commit hubris, and it’s mostly because everyone expects it of them.
Coulton himself says it’s a very impressionistic song, so it’s more about feeling than actual narrative structure. For which reason maybe the best way to analyze the song is as a feeling, rather than a logical, structured context.