Lyric discussion by mrspandex 

Cover art for Fire Eye'd Boy lyrics by Broken Social Scene

I was listening to this today, in an excited and very competitive state.

I think the song is about an ambitious young person, ready to take on the world. He's "always right" and giving "em all the slip." And then at the end, the song wraps up by saying that the ambitions youngster doesn't really get that far.

Personally, I don't think this song is about drugs or hitler or anything that concrete - I think its more about the ideas of naivety and ambition.

Song Meaning

I'm with you here, I just bought the self titled on vinyl the other day and the record slips are covered with what looks like kevin drew's notes/to do list on certain songs, and on Fire eye'd boy one of the notes says "Kill Peter Pan". Peter Pan being representative of an ambitious youth i guess.