| Porcupine Tree – Shallow Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Nytstalk, generalizing an album like deadwing is worthless. Anyways, this song is in the perpective of a person who, like many, had a bad experience with male-to-female interactions in their childhood (Did something in my past create a hole?) which left them desiring sexual pleasure in the place of brotherly interactions with other males. In modern society, its much simpler and easier to communicate with females via the PC (It's easier to talk to my PC). This particular person, though, is, along with being only particularly attracted to females, extremely shallow. He wants to have relations with women only if he is impregnating them (No good to me, not if you bleed). Also, this person is so good at manipulating women that he is practically surgical (Scissors cutting out your anger). This comes at a price, however, and this person doesn't have any real male friends, likely because he considers them a distraction to his relationships with women. (No friends to mention, No distraction, nowhere to go). I can't be positive that this is the correct interpretation, because you never can with PT, but it fits the lyrics extremely well. |
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| Porcupine Tree – Shallow Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Nytstalk, generalizing an album like deadwing is worthless. Anyways, this song is in the perpective of a person who, like many, had a bad experience with male-to-female interactions in their childhood (Did something in my past create a hole?) which left them desiring sexual pleasure in the place of brotherly interactions with other males. In modern society, its much simpler and easier to communicate with females via the PC (It's easier to talk to my PC). This particular person, though, is, along with being only particularly attracted to females, extremely shallow. He wants to have relations with women only if he is impregnating them (No good to me, not if you bleed). Also, this person is so good at manipulating women that he is practically surgical (Scissors cutting out your anger). This comes at a price, however, and this person doesn't have any real male friends, likely because he considers them a distraction to his relationships with women. (No friends to mention, No distraction, nowhere to go). I can't be positive that this is the correct interpretation, because you never can with PT, but it fits the lyrics extremely well. |
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| Porcupine Tree – Blackest Eyes Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| this is most obviously an introduction to the concept of the album. society's "blackest eyes" are the serial killers it inadvertently creates and saying "swim with me into your blackest eyes" is like saying come with me while i explore society's fuck ups, a good way to welcome the albums material. the verses are in the prospective of one of these "black eyes." they are written in a very blunt and defensible manner, so as to suggest that these things come naturally in the person, but are ultimately a product of society. the chorus describes the amalgam of generalities ascribed to people with mental disorders so severe as to allow them to murder. they are also, like the verse, written in a very matter-of-fact fashion, subtly implying the actions of the "black eyes" are consequences of a consistent desensitization by means of movies, games, and the internet, rather than some specific fault with the person. | |
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