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  • Idk why I didn’t put this together sooner but holy shit your joke made an incredible connection for me.

    My favorite album of all time is likely

    Between The Buried and Me - Colors

    (If you’re unfamiliar, and like progressive death metal, go listen to the whole thing). And on that album, theres the song “Sun of Nothing”

    Lyrics and song here

    It’s… It’s basically about Elon Musk (not actually, but like holy shit). Written in 2008, well before he went to play “spaceman”.

    The song is about an egotistical fuck who thinks they’re better than everyone. It’s a modern day Icarus story. Dude wants to distance himself from everyone he sees as boring, mundane. Straps himself to a (metaphorical) rocket thinking it’s cool and is also his ascension to be a deity, and shoots himself ‘toward the sun.’

    As he goes through with his plan he realizes everything was better before he played spaceman. Yeah his plans were cool and he saw himself as a god and everyone else as pathetic, but now that he’s a spaceman, he’s the god of nothing. Oops.

    "…I’m floating towards the sun…

    The sun of nothing…"