While most of the live performances from the Livestream Experience re-used the same couple sets, changing only the lighting and decorations between songs, “Shy Away” is one of three songs that got its own set. (The others are the first performance of “Choker” and the living room set for “Saturday”) While not much is yet known about the radically different set from the others in the Livestream Experience, its exclusive existence may simply be due to “the unleashing of an imagination.” The leading theory is the icy location is a small nod to Scaled And Icy’s album title.

The idea of imagination paired with the snowy location may be a reference to The Chronicles of Narnia, a fantasy book series in which the concepts of imagination and disbelief run heavily throughout. The author, C.S. Lewis, wrote about his interpretation of imagination in his essay “Image and Imagination”:

For me, reason is the natural organ of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning. Imagination, producing new metaphors or revivifying old, is not the cause of truth, but its condition.

While this theory of Tyler Joseph expressing himself in C.S. Lewis' way has not been confirmed, the possible connection is too heavy to dismiss, especially given the two’s Christian history and similar stances on creativity.