This was a wondrous collage of Mufasa's last breath mixed with the incident of estrangement, fear, and shock felt by Simba after his father's murder as the stampede's dust settled. The verse stands as a gigantic monument to the Timon and Pumba's Nietzschean stance on life; akuna matata. This celebration of life, this "everlasting yes" is a telling contrast to the scarring (U C WHAT I DID THERE) incident just days before. Fading back into consciousness, the beaten but not yet defeated prince is forced to eat worms with the jolly duo to survive. Clearly these worms are a symbol - an archetype which symbolizes the weakness, degradation and filth which Simba is trying to escape. As we progress to the second verse, it is clear that Simba's childhood friend has grown into a beautiful lioness, ravaged daily in orgies with scar and Simba's mother. As they roll down the hill of memories, the lioness emerges on top, symbolizing Simba's emasculated aura and his suppressed masculine urge to slay his father's murderer. As we return to the chosen land, Black gracefully poses the question: where in limbo is scar hiding? If the abyss has been altered for a more Dantean reality, is Scar seething, wating in the castle of limbo with the great kings of men? Biding his time, looking skywards to that bleak morose gray white black blood sky, merging with the dominant color to look red as henna. As a spider's silk drops, Scar attempts to climb, and unlike aesop's fable this time it may not be in vain. The world is a beautiful symphony of logic and illogic, and it culminates in a burst of Heyna cynicism and the fires of Simba's urge to victory.
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