This song deals with unfullfilled and forgotten dreams.
The lines: "(I've got to keep up with all the others)" and "If you wait I'm gonna drive it home
(Carry all of this away from here)"
suggest to me that Fanning is troubled by desires he has that have negative influences... such as how the media could make a girl want to lose weight or a man act hyper-masculine- and that he wants to break away from that. He wants to alter other people's desires as well :" I'm hosing down your shooting star"
This causes hopelessness because now with out dreams or aspirations there is no hope, but he wants to reassure that you already have everything you could ever want, though we might think we want to live in an 'ideal', larger than life world.
This is because our true aspirations are blocked out by fake wishes : "The shooting star is hardly seen
Outshined by every other beam"
Finally, when we get everything we thought we wanted, we realize how unhappy where we are, in a 'Woe to he who gets what he desires' sense. At the end, Fanning shows strong references to suicide by jumping of a building. The lines "And you'd sleep through heaven
Just to get to hell" showing that there was more happiness when we didn't have all the things that we wanted.
I'm pretty sure Fanning was refering to more specific things, though I can't see exactly what they were. Anyway, that was my interpretation.
This song deals with unfullfilled and forgotten dreams. The lines: "(I've got to keep up with all the others)" and "If you wait I'm gonna drive it home (Carry all of this away from here)" suggest to me that Fanning is troubled by desires he has that have negative influences... such as how the media could make a girl want to lose weight or a man act hyper-masculine- and that he wants to break away from that. He wants to alter other people's desires as well :" I'm hosing down your shooting star" This causes hopelessness because now with out dreams or aspirations there is no hope, but he wants to reassure that you already have everything you could ever want, though we might think we want to live in an 'ideal', larger than life world. This is because our true aspirations are blocked out by fake wishes : "The shooting star is hardly seen Outshined by every other beam" Finally, when we get everything we thought we wanted, we realize how unhappy where we are, in a 'Woe to he who gets what he desires' sense. At the end, Fanning shows strong references to suicide by jumping of a building. The lines "And you'd sleep through heaven Just to get to hell" showing that there was more happiness when we didn't have all the things that we wanted. I'm pretty sure Fanning was refering to more specific things, though I can't see exactly what they were. Anyway, that was my interpretation.