Lyric discussion by Ioka420 

Cover art for Here's To Life lyrics by Streetlight Manifesto

Hemmingway = Uber awesome author. Suffered from mental illness, killed himself with a shotgun blast. "Hunting" accident.

Van Gogh = Uber awesome artist. A deeply, deeply disturbed man later in life. Suffered from epilepsy, and lived in an asylum, where he was tormented by the conditions of the other patients. Cut off his lower earlobe with a razor blade before commiting himself. Though he did make a recovery, one day he just took his easel out to a field, pulled out a revolver, and shot himself in the chest.

Albert Camus = Author. Wrote several plays, including "The Plague", and "The Just Assassins". Won a nobel prize, actually. Died in an auto accident, thought to be a suicide. His final works were found in the car with him.

Every person mentioned was a genius, who was emotionally disturbed. Pretty much all of them commited suicide, too. It's been awhile since I read Catcher In The Rye, though, so I don't know if Holden offed himself...but I know Salinger is killing himself, just slowly.

Salinger is meant to be the 'hero' of this song, because rather thsn commiting suicide he just avioded the public focus because it hindered more than helped him, im not sure about holden caulfield tho. but yeh its all in the lil' book you get with the bandits CD lol im responding to a post made 5 years ago XD how time flies.

Holden Caufield never killed himself, but he was in a mental institution at the end of the book. Read the book, haha.