All the way to Reno (you’re gonna be a star) – "Ok, so this song is obviously about someone trying to make it big in the big city of lights, trying to strike fame. Once again it’s one liners that give it a twist, and the twist, once again, is uniquely analogous. And that allows me to point out what ‘star’, in terms of the feedback symbolism means, having nothing to do with stardom. It’s literally her personal symbol, you know that. And actually it was Bono who ascribed it, something he started into in 1991, and made a specific handle with ‘Hold me, Thrill Me, Kiss me, Kill Me’ in 1995. It’s either star or moon and he started both. Star is more the more personal of the two because of these two in Bono’s nomenclature, moon is actually deriving from someone Else, while star is just hers, and later becomes a name. It’s still being used heavily, and what it forebodes here is arriving at a place where the reality of that personal transcendence is visible and acknowledged, not hidden, and everyone being one because we’re all connected in it on the same level (‘We Are All Made of Stars – Moby). So ‘star’ connotes this new awareness we’re existing in that hasn’t occurred in humans before, we shine as spiritual lights, and actually we’re interacting as such.
The general sense of the song all naturally fits, especially the idea of leaving to become it, and whistling the ‘rules of change’, because while it doesn’t look it yet, the S.P. has that potency within it. Significantly, The S.P. was the first time I’d laid out any basis for this whatsoever, and in a nutshell, it is the one thing that does define the collective awareness because literally, it is the transformation spawned by the S.P., that went through the collective, that defined the collective as a unit; it is the transformation in itself that defined! More interesting in terms of lyric, though, is ‘you’ve dusted the unbelievers, and challenged the laws of chance’
If you had seen the hostile climate I landed in on your forum, you’d well agree I should have had ‘kick me’ written on my sleeve. What no one grasped was the significance of what I was doing, and how the principle of articulating the now so the reflection could be seen in the future, that sea change shift in asserting one’s self with such confidence that it would prove itself through the feedback, really was dusting all the unbelievers, who were themselves.
Another thing I wrote about in the Journal before I left the country, was about how it was literally challenging the laws of chance (Feb. 22, p.161). By going to Ireland I dropped out of college and staked all my savings on the premise that chance would bend to my necessity. I was landing in a city of four million people in order to find one individual who would be very hard to reach. I was fully aware of how this was challenging the laws of chance, enough that it freaked me out. And actually chance was heavily involved to an extent that indicates it was no chance at all, up to and including turning into the same hallway at the exact same second and meeting in the middle, where I was able to deliver the SP, which I’d brought to the hotel that very day. The laws were challenged and they did bend, exactly like they were supposed to. Chance can only get you so far in the face of utter bricks."