Okay so the whole song is about this intense rivalry between Mozart and Antonio Salieri.
The first verses,
"I just want to be better than your, your head's only medicine
A downward spiral just a pirouette
G-g-getting worse til there's n-n-nothing left
What good comes of something when I'm
Just the ghost of nothing, nothing?"
This whole verse is talking about how Mozart wanted to speak to people
through music, but then through the pollution of alcohol in his mind,
he began crashing towards the ground, until he was so polluted that the
alcohol killed him.
"I'm just the man on the balcony singing,
"Nobody will ever remember me,"
Rejoice, rejoice and fall to your knees"
At the beginning of the movie Amadeus, a movie based on this epic
rivalry, Antonio is seen singing on his balcony about nobody will
remember him because of how popular Mozart has become.
"(For! A!)
Lunatic of a god or a god of a lunatic?
Oh, their faces are dancing
They're dancing 'til,
'Til they can't stand it"
This God line is interesting cause it has a double meaning. In one
sense, it's a play on how religious Antonio was, and through the movie
he loses his faith in God, and curses him for giving Mozart such talent.
On the other hand, it could be Pete simply asking out, "Is God crazy? or are we crazy for not understanding God?"
"A composer but never composed
Singing the symphonies of the overdose
A composer but never composed
Singing,
"I only want what I can't have"
"I only want what I can't have" "
Here Antonio is grieving in these lines, and the line "singing the
symphonies of the overdose." is referring again to Mozart succumbing to
alcohol, and yet still everyone knows his music and not Antonio's.
Obviously "I only want what I can't have." is talking about how Antonio want's Mozart's genius, but can't have it.
"Heralded as a king before I had a birthday
With double (double) digits (digits)
Fit the crown to my head but I was only a kid
Yeah I was only a kid!
Yeah I was only a kid!"
This verse talks about how Mozart was famous before he was even 10, writing his first masterpieces at 4-6.
"Fit the crown to my head but I was only a kid" explains why Mozart
wasted himself with alcohol, because he was a child and didn't know any
better.
Okay so the whole song is about this intense rivalry between Mozart and Antonio Salieri.
The first verses,
"I just want to be better than your, your head's only medicine A downward spiral just a pirouette G-g-getting worse til there's n-n-nothing left What good comes of something when I'm Just the ghost of nothing, nothing?"
This whole verse is talking about how Mozart wanted to speak to people through music, but then through the pollution of alcohol in his mind, he began crashing towards the ground, until he was so polluted that the alcohol killed him.
"I'm just the man on the balcony singing, "Nobody will ever remember me," Rejoice, rejoice and fall to your knees"
At the beginning of the movie Amadeus, a movie based on this epic rivalry, Antonio is seen singing on his balcony about nobody will remember him because of how popular Mozart has become.
"(For! A!) Lunatic of a god or a god of a lunatic? Oh, their faces are dancing They're dancing 'til, 'Til they can't stand it"
This God line is interesting cause it has a double meaning. In one sense, it's a play on how religious Antonio was, and through the movie he loses his faith in God, and curses him for giving Mozart such talent. On the other hand, it could be Pete simply asking out, "Is God crazy? or are we crazy for not understanding God?"
"A composer but never composed Singing the symphonies of the overdose A composer but never composed Singing, "I only want what I can't have" "I only want what I can't have" "
Here Antonio is grieving in these lines, and the line "singing the symphonies of the overdose." is referring again to Mozart succumbing to alcohol, and yet still everyone knows his music and not Antonio's. Obviously "I only want what I can't have." is talking about how Antonio want's Mozart's genius, but can't have it.
"Heralded as a king before I had a birthday With double (double) digits (digits) Fit the crown to my head but I was only a kid Yeah I was only a kid! Yeah I was only a kid!"
This verse talks about how Mozart was famous before he was even 10, writing his first masterpieces at 4-6. "Fit the crown to my head but I was only a kid" explains why Mozart wasted himself with alcohol, because he was a child and didn't know any better.