That's right above from where you are Neutral Milk Hotel – Holland, 1945
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Perhaps Jeff is giving us some food for thought by challenging us to judge the travesties of the Holocaust with subjectivity, rather than by just remember a few memorable faces (Adolf Hitler, Anne Frank Oskar Schindler…).
If we look at the Holocaust objectively, we may not grasp how evil and horrific things were. This is linking back to his idea of Earth looking better from afar.
Now if we get personal, and think about the millions that died, the millions more who were slaves, the poverty, disease, famine, destruction, torture and lies that were spread because of Anti-Semitism, we realize that humans are cruel, and the Earth loses its prettiness.
Things often look better in retrospect once they are done and all over, because we might like to linger on the good side of them. Perhaps he believes that Anne would be looking back onto the Earth from a “star” after her death, thinking to herself that everything looks better afterwards than when you’re actually in it, or that even he will look back on his life at the point of his own death with more happiness than he has now.
Where no-one can escape
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Jeff Magnum is perhaps stating that Anne/The Anne Frank Inspired Character/Himself should not fear death as through the media (symbolized here with the largest form at the time of Anne’s death; Newspapers) we will be remembered.
Every event that has ever been called historic, and for that matter any event that has been remember by a vast group of people has undergone a process of being recorded by the media.
This could also be Jeff expressing his view on Nazi Propaganda, and how throughout the regime, it worsened until people pretty much believed everything Adolf Hitler and his party forced upon them.
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Tyler is referencing the movie Over the Hedge.
One of the movies main characters, RJ, carries around a potato sack with him. So, by Tyler saying “Over the edge”, he’s stating how been pushed over the top with his life and chooses to hide away.
In music he shows himself as this crazy, flamboyant figure to mask over his his troubled youth and insecurities; here he is letting them out.
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