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My Name is Heisenberg, King of Kings

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My Name is Heisenberg, King of Kings Lyrics

As Breaking Bad's Walter White sinks deeper and deeper towards his demise, Percy Shelley's poem on the inevitable fall of every great empire becomes increasingly relevant.

"Ozymandias" tells the story of a traveller who walks through a once great land and observes how every symbol of the former empire has been reduced into nothing. Even the statue celebrating the most powerful pharoah in Egyptian history and his empire has become "two vast and trunkless legs of stone" in the middle of nowhere.

Watching Bryan Cranston recite this poem as the camera pans over every important landmark in Walter White’s rise to power leads one to believe that “the great Heisenberg” is in for a similar fate, and the ominous porkpie hat in the middle of the desert seems to foreshadow that Walter’s White legacy will soon be decimated into nothing. Despite his desire to go down in a blaze of glory as the legendary Heisenberg, it looks like Walter is going to slowly fade away, reminding us that there is no such thing as staying power. We will learn more during tonight’s episode of Breaking Bad: aptly titled “Ozymandias”.

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