A man (young? old?) wants to be an old-style entertainer, but nobody watches that type of entertainment anymore, so he's got no prospect of success. His belief that he can still make this work is illogical: logic twisted like a pretzel.
The event concerning Napoleon is probably a moment captured in War and Peace, when he had just about captured Moscow and stood on Poklonny Hill in anticipation of what he thought was inevitable victory. As it turned out, capturing Moscow was the beginning of his end. The grandeur the singer believes to be within his reach is never going to come -- just as Napoleon's belief that Moscow would be the last victory he'd ever have to win was illusory. Oh, but the glory of standing on that hill and taking in that view before everything unravels.
A man (young? old?) wants to be an old-style entertainer, but nobody watches that type of entertainment anymore, so he's got no prospect of success. His belief that he can still make this work is illogical: logic twisted like a pretzel.
The event concerning Napoleon is probably a moment captured in War and Peace, when he had just about captured Moscow and stood on Poklonny Hill in anticipation of what he thought was inevitable victory. As it turned out, capturing Moscow was the beginning of his end. The grandeur the singer believes to be within his reach is never going to come -- just as Napoleon's belief that Moscow would be the last victory he'd ever have to win was illusory. Oh, but the glory of standing on that hill and taking in that view before everything unravels.