You know, when you hang yourself…
I swear this song is supposed to be a fun song, but it’s coming out as like-
There’s a lot of references to just death.
But then at the same time, how happy it feels to be young and feel immortal.
I went to NYU in New York and I used to have these parties with my friends where we would
watch these Miyazaki films.
Just in order.
Every week.
And I felt like I was invincible.
We all felt like we were invincible.
I was trying to make something romantic happen with my best friend at the time and she wasn't
really feeling it.
And then I ended up continuing to live my life and running into different people.
And I think I took all those experiences and just put them together in this one melting pot.
“Talking to the moon” is basically just the idea of when you're alone at night and
everybody else is alone in their respectful places.
All you have is yourself and your thoughts.
And your one immediate kind of experience.
It wasn't even literally talking to the moon.
It's just…
You have nothing else to keep you company except for whatever's in that room with you
and the moon.
If you're gonna be walking on thin ice so to speak…
If you're constantly clinging to the edge of sanity.
That's like a solo kind of experience of being on the brink of hanging off of a cliff.
And this time, you don't have to do that alone.
You get to have a spectator.
It’s just showing how in the past, you were doing all this destructive behavior on your
own and now you're sharing it.
And you're both doing it together.
You are emboldened when you’re with someone who shares your basic values.
Like faith for example.
If someone has your same faith, then you can kind of coexist in this reality where each
person’s being strengthened by the other’s influence.
In this context, you know, unfortunately, it’s not as…
I don’t think it’s as optimistic.
But it's still highlighting a reality in which the recklessness of being young and feeling
like you can conquer anything with no consequences is just like a ball of energy going back and
forth between both parties.
You’re heads up in the clouds.
You’re in paradise.
And I just put the mushroom on it because I wanted
to make it feel a little bit more uncertain.
Like everything else in the entire song.
You got your paradise here and then you got your volcano underneath about to erupt.
You know you’re killing time because you’re checking all the boxes of biological existence.
What it technically means to just be alive.
“Dying for your love” shows the desperation of that feeling and what it means to just
in your heart feel 100% like you’re indestructible.
After walking through everything else about the song, it definitely has a much more nihilistic
outlook than I think I even realized.