| Phantogram – Black Out Days Lyrics | 4 years ago |
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Guys, I think you got it all wrong. This magnificent Phantogram song doesn't talk about drugs or psychological disorders, let alone obsessive loves. She just talks about losing faith in love and living in a corrupted world where you can only trust in yourself. And it must be interpreted not only through its lyrics, but with the powerful melody, Sarah's beautiful voice and the music video that is loaded with complementary symbolism. It starts with a flame that is almost extinguished, a heat that has died out, with the glow of the sun going away and all the darkness that it hid coming out. This is what should makes those around us save their judgment, because we are already confused by all the voices in our heads telling us what to do or not to do. "Speaking in tongues" is making yourself understandable: which is difficult when we are overwhelmed by the emotion of a feeling that slowly dies within us without the person who awakened them care about, and any message they will give us later can easily be misunderstood. So what do we have left but to come back to ourselves? As the great John Frusciante would say, we just don't throw our lives away - like we did in a break up - when we just going inside. And to move on, we need to resolve the issues that an end needs. The only person who can tell us how to do this is the one whose reflection we see every day in a mirror. Only this person can tell us all the ways in which we can stay away from pain. And it was all these painful events that she or he caused us to pass that caused them, for our consideration of them, to dig a hole for themselves. But that's not will stay like this, because we are so angry at what they have done to us that our hands burn with sparks to repay all this indifference and cruelty. If we could, like Carrie we would rain blood on their heads. So it is better that them all just stay away, and we retreat into our dark days where we go to trust only in our egos, bathe in the gold of a capitalist world without genuine values, abandon the traditions of the wisdom of our elders, and not to surrender even to the fatherly love we would give to our offspring, like wolves in a pack. In the end, that person whose face we know so well will just be unrecognizable to us. Our eyes will be blackened when the early flame has let out its last smoke. This here is just a synthesis. I point out that in order to fully understand all the depth of this song is very useful to analyze its music video, which greatly enriches its interpretation - with the old man and his regretful and judgmental gaze holding the owl representing wisdom; with the worker who begins to bathe in the ink of a world painted in gold, representing his total surrender to the riches of this world; the indigenous child wearing the wolf's skin and representing the family; the goat's head representing evil being suddenly and violently destroyed, and then presented as a trophy by the golden woman; the guy being drowned in a milk tub, a fantastic allegory of drowning in the life and be able to stand withstanding his blows; the black monster, a representation of our ego and our psychological shadow that inside is filled by the need for riches (to survive); the seductive woman in her dark glamor; and so many other things that I could mention but which I believe have been enough. Phantogram is one of my favorite bands, and I already been listening to this song and watching your video everyday for months by now. |
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