Lyric discussion by mattheft 

'Always had the feeling I could never be the villain, Cause the villain in the books is always backlit'

I hear it as "films" not "books" both times, which ties in with him meeting film characters, and particularly a film noir villain in the final encounter who says "you don't need to be backlit to be the villain"

And the line

"Then, no explosion but participants errosion"

I hear as

"Then, no explosion but persistence brings erosion"

And the lines that Billy Brown says about "if you can't forgive and forget ..." come from Grosse Point Blank, spoken by the Minnie Driver character at the end... interesting that he uses two films starring John Cusack in the song

I think you're right about those two lines, I hear it that way too, and it definitely makes more sense to have films, not books, as you've pointed out and also because in books we don't see backlit villains as such, we usually have them shrouded in a different sort of darkness.

Perhaps Pip has a John Cusack mancrush? ;D

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