The song that was playing on the boom box at the begingin of the episode was the same song that is on the 8 track when the VW gets jump started...

I think this is significant. Like the death card from the tarot reading hurly has been experiencing a transformation... and then he finally believes in his heart of hearts that there is no curse.. it is lifted the Dharma-bus jump starts! and that song comes on. He is back to being the WHOLE Hurley like when he was a child... the morning before his father left.

I wonder if the lyrics are apro po for whats going on in the island... but i will leave that to yall!!!

Don't know about hidden meanings, but love the song.(:

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I do not think it was really a hidden meaning at all, more like a sign of completion or a new life as you said.

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I enjoy the show, and I like to rip it apart too. Fair game.

Personally, I am impressed that the writers are using music to portray emotions and continuity.

This is by no means the first time they've used the same song in the same episode, but from different "periods in time".

Remember one of the very first episodes where they picked up the song on the shortwave, but there was speculation on whether it was the same song being played simultaneously in different time periods, or the same song being heard simultaneously in different time periods.

Shambala was obviously a very important song in Hurley's overall psyche, whether he realized it or not. And the joy he felt when the van started transformed the heartache he relived whenever he last heard the song. And he exhibited this transformation when he divulged specifics about the curse and indicated that he may be somehow responsible for everyone's predicament, but not necessarily believe that he is actually to blame? He always seemed to accept blame for things that were absolutely beyond his control.

A victim of coincidence and happenstance.

Although Hurley may have a friendly and outgoing demeanor, he has always seemed (thanks to the flashbacks) to be a personally introverted, overly sensitive, confused, and self-doubting person. Very tragic.

Or does the number sequence really mean something?

I don't think the numbers have anything to do with it,some of the same songs have played in the past seasons before. I'm waiting for "American Pie".

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" I push this button every 108 minutes, I don't get out much."

"Theres a time for living low down, theres a time for getting high. A time for peace, a time for fire. A time to live, a time to die."

The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right time, but also to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.