"Trapped beneath a chandelier that's going down"
Seems like a really dense line to me, assuming it has meaning (which I will, since MVOTC is such a well put-together album I can't believe this one line is there just 'cause) considering the reference to previous accomplishments (Self-titled debut album's cover), opulence and high-class ideas (the chandelier on the S/T was from St. Anthony House, a old wealthy fraternity/literary society), and simple materialism, along with the fear of death (you try being beneath a chandelier when it falls down). In addition, there's the wordplay on "self" "cell" (phone) and "cell" (prison? catholicism?) and the unpackable opinions of Koenig on agnosticism and free will.
"Trapped beneath a chandelier that's going down" Seems like a really dense line to me, assuming it has meaning (which I will, since MVOTC is such a well put-together album I can't believe this one line is there just 'cause) considering the reference to previous accomplishments (Self-titled debut album's cover), opulence and high-class ideas (the chandelier on the S/T was from St. Anthony House, a old wealthy fraternity/literary society), and simple materialism, along with the fear of death (you try being beneath a chandelier when it falls down). In addition, there's the wordplay on "self" "cell" (phone) and "cell" (prison? catholicism?) and the unpackable opinions of Koenig on agnosticism and free will.