I totally agree with all of you, except in the part where Caitsith01 says that this is sort of a reflection on how smal minded we are as a race. Why? Because this song is written from the alien point of view, and it never says that humans killed him. I know that we ARE small minded in some way, specially if we think that the alien was a friendly visitor in the song. But the song doesn't state that humans mistreated him or anything.
For me, the core of the song lives in the lines "How could something so great / turn so shitty?"; a reflection on the irony of fate.
I totally agree with all of you, except in the part where Caitsith01 says that this is sort of a reflection on how smal minded we are as a race. Why? Because this song is written from the alien point of view, and it never says that humans killed him. I know that we ARE small minded in some way, specially if we think that the alien was a friendly visitor in the song. But the song doesn't state that humans mistreated him or anything. For me, the core of the song lives in the lines "How could something so great / turn so shitty?"; a reflection on the irony of fate.