| Stolen Babies – Filistata Lyrics | 4 years ago |
| I believe this song to be about Anxiety, specifically social anxiety and trying to fit in. A filistata is a genus of spider, so it alludes to the fear of fitting in and being outcast, which i will henceforth call the anxiety, as a spider. \n\n"When you are alone and you’re not one of the boys and girls" signifies this as you are not part of the group, you are alone. \n\n"There is no cure\nI am my only curse"\nsignifies that you see no way out, maybe you have something about you that is stigmatized or you find differentiates yourself to much from the group. \n\n"The Filistata crawling all over my head" signifies that they anxiety is taking over at this part of the song\n\n"safe in the messiest of webs" is a key to show that the web is a safety web we put in place for ourself, maybe a ritual we do, maybe alone time, maybe a secret we can go back to in the comfort of our own solitude.\n\n"Up on a cliff doing the dance\nWhat happens if I lose balance?" refers to trying to mimic others to fit in, and worrying about what happens if you do something wrong. \n\n"Constantly creeping away from people and from noise" creeping is a word often attributed to spiders, so this is a comparison of o0ur behavior under the control of the anxiety to that of a spider. \n\n"And in the end will I have wasted years?" is the stark ending, in the end, when you get over your anxieties, you realize you have simply wasted your time and energy doing the dance and trying to fit in. | |
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