In Ayn Rand's book "Atlas Shrugged," Dagny Taggart, pining for her true love John Galt, uses the number of his house as a symbol for his vacancy in her life. The number is, of course, 367. This song similarly paints a portrait of an unrequited love between the narrator (Dagny) and a person viewed as superior (Galt, Rand's symbol of totally fulfilled human achievement). The song's lyrics are too vague or universal to completely draw a parallel, but the words the narrator studies "to check your style" could be Galt's 80 page radio speech, just as "the things that should not be" could refer to the future of the world as controlled by the looters, etc.
In Ayn Rand's book "Atlas Shrugged," Dagny Taggart, pining for her true love John Galt, uses the number of his house as a symbol for his vacancy in her life. The number is, of course, 367. This song similarly paints a portrait of an unrequited love between the narrator (Dagny) and a person viewed as superior (Galt, Rand's symbol of totally fulfilled human achievement). The song's lyrics are too vague or universal to completely draw a parallel, but the words the narrator studies "to check your style" could be Galt's 80 page radio speech, just as "the things that should not be" could refer to the future of the world as controlled by the looters, etc.