The line "just like heaven" reminds me of the reason why I was turned onto this song so quickly. It was because, heaven being such an elevated and lofty concept, any comparison to it has to be that much divine--almost to the point of being self-sacrificial. It made me sympathetic to the speaker.
From an analytical standpoint: heaven might not make sense since the stars are, in a matter of speaking, "the heavens." But this song would go to show you that heaven is a term based on point-of-view. If you are indeed in what is considered heaven, how would perfection be able to be perfect when life, by definition, includes the possibility of failure (and hence, a sense of danger and "the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune" (Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act3Sc1Ln58)? Sara is instead asserting heaven's mentality, that it is a way of contrasting with imperfect life, wherever you stand.
After she makes this comparison, she questions it. Perhaps I'm sadistic, but her confusion made the song meaningful and important. It gave the attraction a depth, because the pleasure taken from the bright star was an object to be studied. Also, this need for justification is an appropriate antithesis (opponent) for her perfect heaven, like a guilt for the feeling. For me, it made the song, with its universal battle between dream and realization, just like heaven.
The line "just like heaven" reminds me of the reason why I was turned onto this song so quickly. It was because, heaven being such an elevated and lofty concept, any comparison to it has to be that much divine--almost to the point of being self-sacrificial. It made me sympathetic to the speaker.
From an analytical standpoint: heaven might not make sense since the stars are, in a matter of speaking, "the heavens." But this song would go to show you that heaven is a term based on point-of-view. If you are indeed in what is considered heaven, how would perfection be able to be perfect when life, by definition, includes the possibility of failure (and hence, a sense of danger and "the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune" (Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act3Sc1Ln58)? Sara is instead asserting heaven's mentality, that it is a way of contrasting with imperfect life, wherever you stand.
After she makes this comparison, she questions it. Perhaps I'm sadistic, but her confusion made the song meaningful and important. It gave the attraction a depth, because the pleasure taken from the bright star was an object to be studied. Also, this need for justification is an appropriate antithesis (opponent) for her perfect heaven, like a guilt for the feeling. For me, it made the song, with its universal battle between dream and realization, just like heaven.