I think this song is really interesting -- there's a lot of mystical & religious themes (aside from the souled out in heaven) and I love how some of these things really contrast each other ...
I'm going to take a stab at this, but I think maybe he's trying to emphasize his contrast to his surroundings in Mexico AND his not fitting into Heaven. For instance, he's living in Mexico ... he's friends with Miguel, they're smoking Mexican brick weed and he's building this "reputation" of being this cool guy from the states even though his appearance (pale skinny guy long hair etc) is so much different from theirs and would normally keep him apart.
And there are all these lines like, "Like dry ice in the summertime" OR "Flying kites in the wintertime" which are just kind of contrasting things. putting out dry ice -- which creates all that smoke because of its extremely cold temperature, in the summertime. and then flying a kite in the wintertime, which just seems like a bizarre statement in itself -- it seems like such a summer/spring activity to do -- it seems out of place -- just as conor is in mexico. just as conor would be in heaven.
But I think this place he's found here mexico just really suits him ... the song is just littered with all this mysticism, "Magic carpet is the transportation
Went to the moon in a soda can" ... And I think it has more in it than conor and his hard partying ways and not getting into heaven, etc etc -- because that's all so surface level. I just feel like like if we really look at this song and everything from snow white and magic bullet line to stretching the truth to the promise land ... there's a rather surreal but deep statement here.
I think this song is really interesting -- there's a lot of mystical & religious themes (aside from the souled out in heaven) and I love how some of these things really contrast each other ...
I'm going to take a stab at this, but I think maybe he's trying to emphasize his contrast to his surroundings in Mexico AND his not fitting into Heaven. For instance, he's living in Mexico ... he's friends with Miguel, they're smoking Mexican brick weed and he's building this "reputation" of being this cool guy from the states even though his appearance (pale skinny guy long hair etc) is so much different from theirs and would normally keep him apart.
And there are all these lines like, "Like dry ice in the summertime" OR "Flying kites in the wintertime" which are just kind of contrasting things. putting out dry ice -- which creates all that smoke because of its extremely cold temperature, in the summertime. and then flying a kite in the wintertime, which just seems like a bizarre statement in itself -- it seems like such a summer/spring activity to do -- it seems out of place -- just as conor is in mexico. just as conor would be in heaven.
But I think this place he's found here mexico just really suits him ... the song is just littered with all this mysticism, "Magic carpet is the transportation Went to the moon in a soda can" ... And I think it has more in it than conor and his hard partying ways and not getting into heaven, etc etc -- because that's all so surface level. I just feel like like if we really look at this song and everything from snow white and magic bullet line to stretching the truth to the promise land ... there's a rather surreal but deep statement here.