

The lines "Now his life is full of wonder", "But his heart still knows some fear", and "Of a simple thing, he cannot comprehend" may be referring to the extend amount of time that Alex, along with the other Flight 180 survivors, got from being able to avoid death.


The line "And he lost a friend but kept his memory" may be referring to Alex losing Tod Waggener, his best friend, to Death.The line "The shadow from the starlight" may be referring to Death's appearance as a shadow.The line "I've seen it rainin' fire in the sky" is referring to the Flight 180 explosion and the fiery wreckage falling from it "in the sky".It can be also referring to Flight 180 survivors no longer being safe from Death. The line "It keeps changin' fast, and it don't last for long" may be referring to how fast the Death is taking the survivors out.The line "But the string's already broken, and he doesn't really care" may refer to the fact that the Flight 180 survivors cheated Death's original list/design and that Death just created a new design for them.The line "When he first came to the mountains his life was far away" may refer to Alex's spot-on Death's List as last and seventh survivor to die if he weren't able to save Clear and Carter Horton from their deaths.This line might also be referring the child of Alex and Clear Rivers, Alexander Chance Browning, another way to cheat death, new life. The line "You might say he was born again" may refer to only of the ways to cheat death: dying and being resurrected.This refers to the fate of most of the Flight 180 passengers. The artist of this song, John Denver, died in a plane crash, respectably.At the end of the movie, a street performer sings the French translation of the song (the remaining survivors were in Paris at the time), thus alerting Alex that they were still on Death's list.Ĭlues/Connections from "Rocky Mountain High": As Alex noted John Denver died on a plane, which is why this song became synonymous with Death in this movie (ironically John also sang "Leaving on a Jet Plane" which may have been more fitting). In Final Destination, "Rocky Mountain High" by John Denver, is played shortly before someone dies in various scenes, and was also heard by Alex Browning, when he went to the bathroom before boarding Flight 180.
