I Feel Like Dying (2007)

Where's the party?

I Feel Like Dying (2007)
Mars (with stars)
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I Feel Like Dying
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I can mingle with the stars
And throw a party on Mars

I am a prisoner
Locked up behind Xanax Bars

I have just boarded a plane
Without a pilot
And violets are blue

Roses are red
Daisies are yellow
The flowers are dead

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I have yet to hear everything, but I would say this one of the rarest Wayne flows in existence. I believe whatever drugs were involved took his creativity to a new dimension, and his skill and talent prevented the train from going off the rails.

Throughout the whole song he starts off his ideas with a fairly mundane image, and then twists it into something completely psychedelic with just a little bit of wordplay. I tried to split up the lyrics above in a way that would illustrate this. Unfortunately, I can't dive too deep into the actual imagery because there's not enough room for the text, but if I ever have the resources, I will have an animated video made for this song.

What I do want to focus on though is the breakdown of the rhyme scheme after "pilot". It almost feels like he's so far out that he's starting to fumble, and it's all about to fall apart. He twists it even further though, and uses that disorder in the rhyme to strengthen the image of death that he presents with the flowers. This is probably what he means by Xanax bars.