"Bittersweet" as written by Frederik Nordsoe Schjoldan, Burhan Genc and Charlie Brown....
Seven sins of wantonness and
everything that's good is gone
Sell it all for glory from the peers
Silicone priestess scratch the back and
twists the knife to bone
Kick against the pricks and scrape the shins
I'm the enemy in the enemies now
Swallowed the pill
Drank to the fill
All these things I carry now
In this bittersweet, in this bittersweet now
Try to hold the wrold there sinking,
swimming in a paper cup
Try to own the one beneath the skin
Held up to the flame 'till singeing
skin begins to draw and tuck
Never told there's a chance to win
What couldn't be, wouldn't be now
Swallowed the pill
Drank to the fill
All these things I carry now
In this bittersweet, in this bittersweet now
Hold your hands up to the sky and try
so hard to rise above
But everything is beating down
Swallowed the pill
Drank to the fill
All these things I carry now
In this bittersweet, in this bittersweet now
everything that's good is gone
Sell it all for glory from the peers
Silicone priestess scratch the back and
twists the knife to bone
Kick against the pricks and scrape the shins
I'm the enemy in the enemies now
Swallowed the pill
Drank to the fill
All these things I carry now
In this bittersweet, in this bittersweet now
Try to hold the wrold there sinking,
swimming in a paper cup
Try to own the one beneath the skin
Held up to the flame 'till singeing
skin begins to draw and tuck
Never told there's a chance to win
What couldn't be, wouldn't be now
Swallowed the pill
Drank to the fill
All these things I carry now
In this bittersweet, in this bittersweet now
Hold your hands up to the sky and try
so hard to rise above
But everything is beating down
Swallowed the pill
Drank to the fill
All these things I carry now
In this bittersweet, in this bittersweet now
Lyrics submitted by sawg
"Bittersweet" as written by Carl William Bell
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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1.
Immoral or unchaste; lewd.
2.
Gratuitously cruel; merciless.
Marked by unprovoked, gratuitous maliciousness; capricious and unjust: wanton destruction.
3.
Unrestrainedly excessive: wanton extravagance; wanton depletion of oil reserves.
4.
Luxuriant; overabundant: wanton tresses.
5.
Frolicsome; playful.
6.
Undisciplined; spoiled.
7.
Obsolete. Rebellious; refractory.
I think its how furiousD said with selling out but i also think its about how everyone was trying to hold "them" back.
everything that's good is gone
- after commiting "the seven deadly sins" the narrator notices that everything that he once had placed value in is gone.
- possibly "everything thats good" is in reference to giving up on something you strongly believe in such as (but not nessicarily) religion/beliefs. also the "good" could be a reference to the opposite of a sin. for example he may have lost a girlfriend, friends or money to lust; health to gluttony, etc.
Sell it all for glory from the peers
- this line seems to be about selling out. giving up your beliefs for the admiration of people around you.
Silicone priestess scratch the back and
twists the knife to bone
- "silicone priestess" is likely a reference to a girl with implants/plastic surgery. scratch the back would be a reference to sleeping with someone, most likely sleeping with someone for their looks, and fake looks at that. "twists the knife to bone" would be a reference to the hurt that comes from sleeping with someone who doesnt really love you. again a repetition of the lust/selling out theme.
Kick against the pricks and scrape the shins
- "pricks" may be slang for "assholes" or a reference to something that hurts physically. "kick against the pricks" would be to fight against something that either emotionally or physically hurts you, but "scrape the shins" suggests that it only hurts one more to fight it.