And you run and you run to catch up with the sun, but it’s sinking
Racing around to come up behind you again.
The sun is the same in a relative way but you’re older
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death

https://xkcd.com/327/

I’ve seen a video with the history of all of the button layouts

https://youtu.be/-E9Uw3lhWsI

It’s a long enough video and just goes through the history of different layouts for different controllers and tries to reason why they are what they are.

Linkin Park - One More Light