I agree that the song is about death and afterlife. In these lines:
"See now a star is born
Looks just like a blood orange
Don't it just make you want to cry?"
It reminds me of the scientist Tycho Brae; he discovered a "new-born star" (it was acually dying) in a time when it was normally believed that everything above the moon (stars and planets) were unchanging. This disproved the old paradigme and gave therefore people a reason to doubt God and the afterlife. I think that this is what he has in mind when saying "don't it just make you want to cry?" because this is (was) a proof that maybe the afterlife wasn't what we thought it was after all.
I agree that the song is about death and afterlife. In these lines:
"See now a star is born Looks just like a blood orange Don't it just make you want to cry?"
It reminds me of the scientist Tycho Brae; he discovered a "new-born star" (it was acually dying) in a time when it was normally believed that everything above the moon (stars and planets) were unchanging. This disproved the old paradigme and gave therefore people a reason to doubt God and the afterlife. I think that this is what he has in mind when saying "don't it just make you want to cry?" because this is (was) a proof that maybe the afterlife wasn't what we thought it was after all.