u/Echo-egg

Specifically at the stairs on the left. I'm trying to get out of the building but going down keeps teleporting me back up.

Will closing the door make me miss something?

Can anyone make sense of this new lyric Cosmic Hero? What is it even supposed to mean?

To me, the song's lyrics convey someone trying to get away from their problems, putting yourself up on a pedestal for (in truth, only prerending to have) fixed them and looking down on everyone else for not having done so themselves, and still not feeling satisfied with your life. It's my favourite song ever because of all the emotional gut punches it made me feel on my first listen, like for example "Just ask yourself why you're lying in bed alone," "There is room for all in heaven. I will go to heaven, you won't got to heaven," and "It'll be alright. Fuck you."

That's why I find the "fuck you" at the climax of the song being removed to be so frustrating. Cursing throughout the album made it feel in spirit of a teen with all the anger, angst, and pettiness that comes with growing up. Here, the emotional impact of a curse was used to show and add to the narrative of the song. Someone is so full of themselves that he impulsively pushes everyone away who tries to help because he projects his insecurities of not being a hero onto them. He sees everyone as worse than him to make himself feel more holy and tells them to do better. Instead of overthinking this tyrannical worldviews, he tells people to change the world itself. But he also projects it onto others. So when they give him advice they must also see him as bad, so when they offer him help it must mean they are belittling him, trying to gain self-fulfilment out of his suffering, being his "savior", eventhough he is doing this too in the exact same way at the beginning of the song. Hence the "I will go to heaven, you won't go to heaven." goes both ways, from the narrator to the audience and from the audience to the narrator. The only respond he can muster in his current state, being a teenager with not much life-experience and hindsight yet, is a childish emotional lash out.

It connects perfectly with Dunk Drivers' "You build yourself up againsy others feeling and it left you feeling empty...", Ballad Costa Concordia's "If only I could sustain my anger", and the rest of the album in general.

It is so unbelievably good and genuinely thought-provoking. I read The Denial of Death to better understand this song in particular because I couldn't get it out of my head. I can talk about it for hours. Also, mood.

Anyway, back on topic. I don't agree with Will's stated reason for sanatizing the lyrics. (What child that has never heard "piss" could even find his songs, make sense of the themes, wrongly idolise them, and so try to imitade Joe? I don't think songs can have that big of an impact on someone to make them changes their vocabulary. Or does he thinks he's too virtuous to swear?) However, as a rule I do think you could always avoid shallow cursing and instead write something with more depth. Will did that in some songs, like "One month later I'm a fucking pro," to "become the star of my own show," and "We know what you are." But, really, its such a minor thing to go back ten years for and accidentally diminish songs' tones. Some got new, interesting meanings I enjoy, some just got screwed. God damn -- *damn*, they even censored that.

Whatever. Cracks in the walls are telling me to get out of bed and eat beakfast.

Watching the introduction of the whole sick crew, I notices that the cryptonym of each spy starts with the same letter as their real name, only Hersel's doesn't. Could this have any meaning in the story or is it just an inconsistency?