Interpretations:Super Cool

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Pretty direct

A nervous man wants to impress his crush with some incendiary moves and takes lessons at a dance studio. He succeeds his endeavor. AnaNgInASpaceSuit (talk) 15:58, 20 September 2021 (EDT)

My Super Long Interp for Super Cool

Alright, here's my complete interpretation of the song "Super Cool"

When you come around
I hide my face in hyperspace

When she appears, he gets scared and hides in "hyperspace" maybe the later mentioned trapdoor?

When you come around
I'm no foot tall against the wall

No foot tall could mean he is really in the fetal position against the wall In Summary: The narrator is shy, if not terrified about his crush

But then I found just the place
Up a story from the drugstore
Working hard to just convince myself
How to lose it on the dance floor

Aw, he found a club. Good for him

Super cool (Cool)
Super cool (Cool)
Super cool (Cool)
Super cool (Cool)

either he's saying it's super cool or it's the name of the club

If you break it down
Swim in the sea of reverie
If you break it down
All the fear has disappeared

When he (as you say) breaks it down, he is no longer afraid

That sweet day I forget it all
And stop searching for the trapdoor
I'll come back here to remind myself
Of when I lost it on the dance floor

I think he's looking for a trapdoor to hide from his crush, also, the losing it on the dance floor is probably referring to an incident where he went crazy on the dance floor

Super cool (Cool)
Super cool (Cool)
Super cool (Cool)
Super cool (Cool)
Super cool (Cool)
Super cool (Cool)
Super cool (Cool)
Super cool (Cool)

Still, kind of no idea what the chorus means in context. --Jimmyzenshins311 (talk) 09:47, 22 September 2021 (EDT)

Singer is a Nervous Wreck!

To me, this song is about finding a coping mechanism to deal with social anxiety. The place that he finds a story above the drug store is a dance studio. He learns to use dance to overcome his fear of other people, rather than just hiding from them (the mentioned 'trapdoor'). -B33-1N-Y0UR-B0NN3T (talk) 12:21, 27 September 2021 (EDT)

Searching for the trapdoor

Here's an angle that makes the brightest, mellowest song on the album a little more ominous (not that BOOK needs to be any more ominous). It concerns this verse:

That sweet day I forget it all
And stop searching for the trapdoor
I'll come back here to remind myself
Of when I lost it on the dance floor

I always thought "the trapdoor" was something the singer was dropped through, so "That sweet day I forget it all / And stop searching for the trapdoor" is him longing for the day where he stops trying to find a way back to where he once was (or acknowledging where he was at all) and just accepts where he's fallen.

Is his new, cool lifestyle an uncomfortable facade he's trapped himself in? Is this him as an older man reminiscing on when he broke out of his shell and wondering when he'll stop envying his past self? Both possibilities bring some weight to the succeeding lines "I'll come back here to remind myself / Of when I lost it on the dance floor" - he's trying to reaffirm that he did something cool and should feel proud of it, or he's submitting to nostalgia again.

The other interpretations on this page make much more sense ("the trapdoor" being just another place to hide, like "hyperspace" or being "no foot tall"), but this captivated me for long enough that I may as well share it. --Ncrecc (talk) 11:46, 2 May 2025 (EDT)