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Yung Lean reps his crew #SadBoys or #EmotionalBoys. In the middle of all these bizarro abstract lyrics, this line could be Lean emoting a very real and very personal e m o t i o n a l experience… A friend pretending Yung Lean does not exist.
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The symmetry can also be seen in a spiritual sense. “What immortal hand or eye could create such good and such evil?”.
This is also a slight variation from the first stanza. At the beginning, Blake wonders who could make such a fearsome creature. Now at the end, he instead asks who would. Blake is a genius of ambivalence: creation is neither good nor evil, but rather: awesome.
The device in a poem where the beginning and end are the same or very similar is known as a ‘circular narrative’. This gives a sense that there are unanswered questions that can never be resolved.
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Even with the endless criticism on how wack he is, BG is still keeping “himself” and not giving a single fuck, and so he is still looked upon by many as a crazy bastard
(but true fans and open-minded listeners will notice how lil b’s creativity keeps blossoming and he is becoming a very versatile artist)
