| Project Pitchfork – Timekiller Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| The music video depicts a man in a fit of hypergraphia. There is a bottle of mysterious liquid (possibly ansinthe) and several nondescript pills on his desk (amphetamines?). As the song/video progresses he becomes increasingly manic as he rises out of his chair and flies around the room while he appears to experience a number of hallucinogenic visuals. This seems to indicate that the lyrics are referring to the addictive pleasure/suffering of ecstatic writing (possibly under the influence of drugs). The author is writing obsessively for the sake of regulating his reality and sense of self (he's able to "calm his mind," reality and fiction "melt together," he fills the void of meaning in his life "with sense", his "mind expands"). However, he may also be writing for the sake of erasing himself in the act of writing or symptomatically self-negating (note the lyric he's "made blind to the fact that [he's] a man"). Of course, all of this erodes his sanity and utterly sinks his time. | |
| Fever Ray – Seven Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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In my opinion the people who think this song is about religious belief are on the right track, however, the song is pervaded with her brand of dark child-like reasoning. So this might imply that her childhood belief is justified by religion rather than the other way around. I don't really hear an "Or" in the verse about the box. So the first time its: "I know it I think I know it from a hymn They said so it doesn't need no explanation A box to open up with light and sound Making you cold, very cold" and the second time the last line is: "And if you don't, you're on your own." My sense is the first time is referring to the death of her friend (the "making you cold, very cold." and the later "your toes cold now" lines). The line "it goes from white to red" might refer to a belief in resurrection she cultivated as child which is justified by having "heard it in a hymn" and reaffirmed by a "voice in her head". Although, I'm inclined to think that it is not resurrection and more a disbelief that her friend is dead, strengthened by their a-temporal presence or her implied retreat into a childhood memory (perhaps implied by the disjointed switch in tense in the lines "We used to talk on that phone, If we have time, if it's the right time, Accompany me. [...] We talk about love"--these lines are interesting because they might be taken casually as her addressing the listener when her character might actually be dissociating or psychologically regressing to a stage of her childhood). When she refers to the box a second time it is re-signified: if you don't open it you are on your own. It seems that whatever was in the box that made her friend cold/dead also keeps her company or returns them to her. My lame alternative interpretation is that the song is referring to an imaginary/dead friend who is possibly also Jesus. Somewhere G.K. Chesterton writes that the moment he experienced his belief in Christ he felt an icy trickle start on his right shoulder then creep down his back. I've personally felt a similar feeling. The box might also be a fridge like the above person said. I don't really have an interpretation, more of an anti-interpretation since the song is fairly nonsensical and what I've written just multiplies the ambiguities. But I think very generally that the song is about guarding childhood fantasies, memories and beliefs that make you cold in that way. There is a difficult and lonely banality to adult life that makes it pointless without such things. |
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| Electric Six – Skin Traps Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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Not saying this is the only interpretation but I feel like one needs to have had some sort of relationship with a notoriously promiscuous woman in order to understand this song. “She's a lifestyle grinder/Ingesting crimewave sauce/And once you get behind her/You can write it off as a loss/She commands the minotaur/And she designs the maze/She's demanding more guitars/That sound like Purple Haze.” She’s high maintenance; she does a lot of drugs or likes to party a lot so that she “grinds” down your lifestyle. You have sex with her and it’s not a real sexual conquest because she is uninhibited and has a lot of sex on drugs anyways (crimewave sauce). BUT she’s a sexually compelling or commanding woman (commands stuff) even though she’s tasteless (demands more guitars that sound like Purple Haze), so Electric Six falls in love. Pretty sure “spending my youth spinning yarns with the lady of the manor/now everyone’s avoiding me/because I’ve got the scanner” means that he had sex with the “lady” and now everyone is both avoiding him because he can tell who she’s had sex with and because he had sex with her in the first place (that’s how he got the “scanner”). The sort of dual difficulty of social stigma from falling in love and consorting with promiscuous women and the paranoia that comes from knowing when people are sleeping with your love interest that causes you to be avoided. Rightfully, because 1. you are an idiot for falling in love with a person who will not reciprocate, 2. you are publically considered an idiot for knowing better. Also, “skin traps” is definitely a euphemism for vagina. What else, “Love lights stay up all nights/I murdered you/If you can't sing and dance for the man/You will be replaced by kids who can.” I take this to be that he had really bad sex with said girl and so quickly got replaced by other “kids.” “But when you go to shoot the messenger/It's like your sending your own message/To the person who sent the original message.” You hate the guys who sleep with her but by doing so you just learn that hate her all the same and nothing is different. Just find someone who loves you back Electric Six. Fall into the skin traps if you want gents, just wear protection and don’t fall in love. I just saw Electric Six perform this song, they are a hilarious sad burnt out band. |
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