I've decided this song has two meanings. One the one hand, I agree with everyone who's said it's an updated version of "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star", because the phrases "how I wonder" and "like a diamond in the sky" are direct quotes from it. Also, the album name, Under the Table and Dreaming, makes me think of being a little kid crawling around between people's legs at a big family dinner like the table is your fortress. Plus the swing ride on the cover. It's all a childhood fantasy revisited.
But also, I feel like it's a love story between the narrator and a girl, except he never explicitly names either himself or her. She's just the "satellite", someone who it seems has been in his "orbit" or on his radar for a while. "Everything good needs replacing", so she should give up her solitary roaming, which is not of itself bad, and instead be with him. He wants to know if she feels the same way, so he asks "Who is the king of your satellite castle?" And all the while he compares her to things like "diamonds in his eyes" and laughs at himself, the "weatherman", for how childishly infatuated he is.
I've decided this song has two meanings. One the one hand, I agree with everyone who's said it's an updated version of "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star", because the phrases "how I wonder" and "like a diamond in the sky" are direct quotes from it. Also, the album name, Under the Table and Dreaming, makes me think of being a little kid crawling around between people's legs at a big family dinner like the table is your fortress. Plus the swing ride on the cover. It's all a childhood fantasy revisited.
But also, I feel like it's a love story between the narrator and a girl, except he never explicitly names either himself or her. She's just the "satellite", someone who it seems has been in his "orbit" or on his radar for a while. "Everything good needs replacing", so she should give up her solitary roaming, which is not of itself bad, and instead be with him. He wants to know if she feels the same way, so he asks "Who is the king of your satellite castle?" And all the while he compares her to things like "diamonds in his eyes" and laughs at himself, the "weatherman", for how childishly infatuated he is.
@sXe LEXXI this seems super smart to me
@sXe LEXXI this seems super smart to me