okay i was STRUGGLING ot find all this man's og songs but he offered me ponyboy (well really i just bargained and he went along w it) so here we are i know nothign about anyone's lore and uhm i don't know how to do that so this will just be my song interpretations 1. waltzing with the sun so imo, this song is clearly about someone who feels drawn to another person, even though that may be painful, dangerous, deserving of punishment. the narrator wants consequences for whats happening, and my interpretation is that they seek destruction and/or reunion through suffering, as all they want is to be reunited with this person again, even if it's going to mean pain and willingness to walk into death's(?) door. waltzing with the sun is a dangerously delicate and seemingly soft title for such a dark song, which directly contrasts with how lethal the sun actually is. a waltz kind of implies closeness, and synchronisation, so by framing something as deadly as the sun in a soft way, the narrator romanticises their destruction. they don't see the danger as something to escape from, they see it as something to dance with and accept. i believe they want /fatality/, which suggests they see the punishment as deserved or 'fate', as living without consequences would feel fake. so yeah idk ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 2. welcome to tally HELL so, i know next to nothing about the ocs and characters, as that is quite tough to wrap my head around, but if i had to take this song/cover at face value, it sounds/looks like a legacy or system that demands a constant performance under the mask of togetherness. unity, as a narrator and character, i believe represents the force that tries to keep everyone aligned and functional, even when the alignment becomes dehumanising and dystopian. the song can be slightly confusing at times, running between celebration and pride to a mental breakdown, revealing how unity is control when someone's identity is reduced to a role. so, unity is the host of tally hell, not the creator, but the facilitator. unity talks very fast, in refs and wordplay which i think shows the fact that if they were to slow down, it would become obvious how bad things are, so they just keep on going faster. there are also lines about catching up, lots of time passing, and being in the future which suggest that maybe unity is terrified of being left behind or forgotten. unity is not malicious, i think, as they say 'if we stop moving together, everything falls apart.', which seems like a way for them to justify the control. in this song, simon and unity overlap a lot, and sometimes it evens eems as though unity may be using simon as a sort of 'mouthpiece' but idk bro. now, i'm probably getting this completely wrong so please dpon't laugh at me LMAAA 3. moon girl i'm gonna overanalyse this song to it's nth degree be warned. now, the part; 'was it the way you did your hair? / the way it left the boys to stare. / oh deary me, i wish / you could fish for your life back... / was it the way you wore your clothes? / the way your shoulder was exposed. / oh deary me, i wish / but now my sky is black.' kind of made me think that moon girl is/was a victim of harassment or something simialr (you know what i'm talking about). i believe the narrator isn't admiring, they're reflecting on the environment moon girl was put into and how that contributed to her vulnerability. i think this song runs in a timeline (or at least im gonna put the song in a timeline to make it easier to understand for myself). at the 'start' the narrator is watching the moon girl closely, and she is being targeted (or objectified...?) by others. emotionally, the naratoor, is reflective and super regretful. in the next 'stage', moon girl is isolated or harassed and i think narrator acts to prevent something. moon girl then approaches a threshold, where the external guidance is gone and then the narrator absorbs her instability. the narrator 'becomes' the monster, needing sun; which moon girl clearly is not. maybe the narrator feels burnt out, maybe regretful that they cannot be the one to help her, maybe they put everything into moon girl, but moon girl is stable, yet the cost has transferred. i also thouyght that the big dipper motif was just a technique of connection in the songwriting, but then i remembered we NEVER overlook anuything in lore so.. + i don't know if this was on purpose, but the tune of "the bees and swaying trees / and the sun looking for me." in sun boy REALLY reminded me of a part of gossip girl (anyone remember that song?) also i am most likely VERY wrong so please don't bash me :) might add more soon!
