| Kurt Vile – Pretty Pimpin Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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Since he also sings something about "lost marbles", I would say the lyrics are no metaphor but about disassociation: He literally does not recognize the face in the mirror, he is annoyed by the stranger in the bathroom, he switches into third person at one point ("All he ever wanted..."), and he literally does not know which day it is. But he takes it with a wink ("But he was sporting all my clothes, I gotta say pretty pimpin'"). |
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| Massive Attack – Psyche Lyrics | 6 years ago |
| @[valebravo57:30952] it helps to listen to some live recordings because Martina tends to slur when she sings (which I love, btw, but it doesn't help with understanding the lyrics ^^). | |
| Massive Attack – Psyche Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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I liked jeetjerome's interpretation a lot as it made much more sense than all the positive meaning ppl were giving this song. However, after I used Psyche for a music video to a movie about dissociative identity disorder, I started to see some eery parallels between lyrics and disorder. The search for the alters or originals in the dark of the mind (I'm looking for you....) creating or calling a new (child-like) identity in a traumatic situation or conjure one as a child as watch it come to life, out of pain Maybe this person indeed dies in the end,but all the identities die together ("only" you and me in the autopsy) In death all split personalities dissolve and yesterday's destiny is gone. I recall a woman with DID comparing her personality system to driving a car: so, maybe in the song, the front identity is the Car still running (while they are dying?), but even then, while they die, it is a shield to the traumatized original personality. That is what this new identity was set in for. It's a wild guess. But it struck me hard while watching the finished video (you can find it on YouTube, just type split and psyche by massive attack in; I'm not advertising, seriously). |
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