| La Dispute – A Letter Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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I don't think that it is a suicide letter necessarily, but I personally interpret this as narrator struggling with suicidal thoughts. I was diagnosed with clinical depression at a young age. I have always struggled with that and self-harm. People act like you can "just stop" or "turn it off." "Hey, just don't think about it." "Cheer up." All that noise. You think I would think and act the way that I do if I could just turn all of this off? I wouldn't. It's not a choice. Sometimes, I can't feel anything. I have become numb, as cliche as that sounds. That is where the "I think the thing is that I shut off from everything" bit comes in, which I have learned is a sign of depression. My friends would always try to get me to smoke/drink/do drugs with them to take my mind off of things, but I never saw the point in it. I would just have to deal with my problems later. You can keep running, but you cannot hide. I tried to kill myself when I was 16 and I was held in an institution because of it. Even since then, people have treated me differently. I still struggle with these things. I may have gotten much better at it, but there is no "cure." Now that I am doing better, however, sometimes I wonder if I ever really did try before this... I still wonder if I am really trying if I still get bad. I just don't see this as a suicide letter or as a letter to anyone in particular, really. I think the narrator just needed to let some of the noise out. You wonder if your sicknesses ail you because you let them, or if it is simply because they will be there regardless of what you do to combat them. This is just how I see it. |
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| Defeater – White Oak Doors Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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I can't believe no one has said anything about this track. It hit me like a train, ahaha. That was terrible. Defeater talked about this in an interview with PitCam a few years ago. The interviewer asked why the track "ends" the way that it does and Jay explains that the sentence stops at "fami-" because "motherfucker got murked, by the train." I never made that connection until I actually sat and read the words as I listened to the album, but when I did it fucking blew my mind. In the same interview, Jay goes on to say that if you own the album in vinyl, the record actually stops there because "On the vinyl there's a locked groove. Your needle will never pick up, because you're fuckin' dead." He then says that because they couldn't do that with a CD, they left all of the space at the end to catch the listener's attention. This band is amazing. I cannot wait to see them in April. |
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