wow yeah thats a great way of looking at it ppl, I always agreed with your thoughts of escaping drudgery of everyday life, but I thought it was by committing arson (!), he talks about setting "the room" and "my world" alight. But I think when he says, "I have found another way", and talks about being taken "far from here" I think you're right, he is giong to use the gasoline to drive himself away from this.
I especially love the line "the sun will never set tonight"... as if he is going to chase the sunset and never let the day end, presumably by changing his monotonous existence.
Burning things is a very common metaphor (symbolism? not sure about the proper term here) for leaving something behind. Completely not only leaving it physically, but destroying any connection to it as well. I would guess most likely from the ideas of "burning" bridges and "burning" photographs, which are both used to refer to the idea of leaving something behind; bridges usually being used in reference to people and photographs in reference to older memories.
Burning things is a very common metaphor (symbolism? not sure about the proper term here) for leaving something behind. Completely not only leaving it physically, but destroying any connection to it as well. I would guess most likely from the ideas of "burning" bridges and "burning" photographs, which are both used to refer to the idea of leaving something behind; bridges usually being used in reference to people and photographs in reference to older memories.
wow yeah thats a great way of looking at it ppl, I always agreed with your thoughts of escaping drudgery of everyday life, but I thought it was by committing arson (!), he talks about setting "the room" and "my world" alight. But I think when he says, "I have found another way", and talks about being taken "far from here" I think you're right, he is giong to use the gasoline to drive himself away from this.
I especially love the line "the sun will never set tonight"... as if he is going to chase the sunset and never let the day end, presumably by changing his monotonous existence.
Chris Cornell's life = monotonous?
hmmm
Burning things is a very common metaphor (symbolism? not sure about the proper term here) for leaving something behind. Completely not only leaving it physically, but destroying any connection to it as well. I would guess most likely from the ideas of "burning" bridges and "burning" photographs, which are both used to refer to the idea of leaving something behind; bridges usually being used in reference to people and photographs in reference to older memories.
Burning things is a very common metaphor (symbolism? not sure about the proper term here) for leaving something behind. Completely not only leaving it physically, but destroying any connection to it as well. I would guess most likely from the ideas of "burning" bridges and "burning" photographs, which are both used to refer to the idea of leaving something behind; bridges usually being used in reference to people and photographs in reference to older memories.