| Austra – The Beast Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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It's gaaaaaaay. It took me a bit to parse the context but it makes a lot more sense through a Sapphic lens - and according to a couple interviews I found, Katie Stelmanis is herself lesbian. "The morning that I was born again" - Discovering your identity, realizing you've got feelings for ladies and accepting it, coming out of the closet, etc. "I was made into a beast" - By the mere fact of you being gay society has become a lot more hostile to you, and has a bad tendency to demonize you. "Am I free now, am I at peace?" - Does coming to grips with my sexuality free me to be myself, or does being part a oft-vilified minority place a greater burden on me? "Is that the ground below me, or your feet?" - 'having feet on solid ground' means that you have a good grip on your situation and remain calm. The 'or your feet' bit implies that someone else could be carrying her (in this context, the person of her affections). In essence: 'am I really doing okay, or are you what's holding me together?' "The morning I saw your face again" - Following my line of thought, seeing her face again would fill her with joy. Gay joy. And that's a horrible thing in the eyes of a discriminating society. "And I'll break my head over you this way!" - The syntax of this line is more confusing. 'Breaking your head' is an idiom for conflicted thought, of an ongoing problem with no easy solution (accepting yourself is seen as monstrous, yet staying closeted is suffocating). In essence: 'I'll go crazy if I keep ruminating on this!' |
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