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Even names that seem impossible to rhyme can be worked with if you let go of your troubles.
This line is the commentary on the state of ‘flow’, or semi-meditation, where if you let everything go, things become effortless.

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Baldness, often a source of insecurity, can be covered with a yarmulke, a traditional Jewish hat.

So Jonny means that one can easily cover insecurities by hiding them behind religion, but that doesn’t mean you’re not still bald under there.

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Err is a homophone of ‘air’, so this is a clever pun (since the sky is made out of air).

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The previous line says it’s August, which is the month before Fall in the northern hemisphere. Also refers to the biblical Fall, which was the event during which Lucifer was cast out of heaven and became Satan.

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This line references the Immaculate Conception, a christian belief in which Mary was impregnated with Jesus while still a virgin.

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A play on the phrase “Bringing a knife to a gun fight.”

As a fire fight was going on around him, Brer just juggled whimsies, possibly saying that he’s done fighting and just trying to live blissfully no matter what his surroundings are like.

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Fireflies are an example to humans because their light comes from inside them instead of seeking it from an external source. Light is a symbol here.

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Jonny would rather be celibate than be trapped in a committed relationship.

This line is also a wordplay, as it sounds like “Sail the celibate-seas”

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In Greek mythology, Panacea was a goddess of healing. She was said to possess a potion that could be used to heal the sick. Thus the term “Panacea” in medicine came to mean a cure for all diseases. In common usage, a Panacea is anything that can fix an otherwise unworkable problem.

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In the New Testament, Jesus had a crown of thorns forced onto his scalp as a mockery by the Romans for his claim as King of the Jews.
Here, the Crown of Thorns represents the suggestion that those in charge of the new world should govern humbly and with love as Jesus did, instead of the splendor and pompousness that more traditional crowns connote.

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