Lyrics: [Verse] "I feel the top of the roof come off ill everybody there And I'm watching all the stars burn out Trying to pretend that I care" ----The Hunter is experiencing misanthropic thoughts feeling a desire to ill everyone around him. As well as that the line “I feel the top of the roof come off” implies a sense of anxiety/anxious thoughts instilled in the narrator which is edging them towards ‘snapping’. The line could also be interpreted as if god/heaven is reaching out to him and he is choosing to ill everyone in there ----The process of the burning of a star is when the atoms within it collide and thus generates energy. Stars are mostly at this stage, the heat and electromagnetic radiation produced creates the luminescent appearance of stars we see in the stars at night. This is the phase the narrator is watching; stars at an equilibrium burning stably. However, since the amount of hydrogen fuel in a star is finite, it will reach an end. This eventually leads to the collapse and death of a star. Clearly this doesn’t phase the narrator as he has a job to do despite all the stars above him are in the process of dying. [Verse]: "And our clothes are all too often ripped And our teeth are all too often gnashed (Arrowheads, arrowheads, arrowheads, arrowheads) And it lasts as long as it possibly can." ----In reference to when Antiochus addresses the hild after the hild asks “what happens after we die?”. He talks about how in grief “we do not tear our clothes, we do not gnash our teeth, for though it lasts as long as it possibly can, there is no suffering and there is no lack of suffering” (Taken from the Books of Terror and Longing). The reference isn’t exact, in that ripped clothes, gnashed teeth, and grief lasting as long as it possibly can is something Antiochus explicitly denies. Instead of the position of “there is no suffering and there is no lack of suffering”, the narrator uses this imagery to create a vision of life where one actively suffers–unlike Antiochus, where things balance out into a relative indifference.
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