| Subtle – F.K.O. Lyrics | 2 months ago |
| For me, this is a big middle finger to those idiots who worship celebrities like they're gods, and also to american politics, that are compared here (and in the music video) to fascism, as in the official music video of the song you can see a black stick figure running away from a giant caricature of italian dictator Benito Mussolini. At the end the black stick figure turns into a tree and escapes from the caricature. | |
| Subtle – Bed To The Bills Lyrics | 4 months ago |
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I agree with the comment that says that this song is about the coldness and greedyness of the music industry. For me this song is also about trying to gather the beauty and positive things in the chaos of everyday life. Drucker is describing wellness as a bowl of waxen fruit atop a corinthian column. The images of suits arguing and big business men are obviously linked with the world of work, a theme that is predominant in the album (as the character in the album, Hour Hero Yes, is a middleclass worker) But in the end, he realizes that he is still a neurodivergent and queer man that he has to pay bills and living like every adult: it's an hard job to be an adult neurodivergent man and live like every other adult while still being like an alien. The song closes with a mantra about an honey smothered handgun all covered in ants: the image of the corinthian column used in the second verse returns in order to list something that Drucker craves more than wellness (since he obsessively repeats it), i.e. the sweet release of death, in order to escape to the endless torture to live a live as a neurodivergent adult in a world that will never understand or welcome you. |
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| Subtle – Middleclass Stomp Lyrics | 4 months ago |
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Doseone is talking about his beginnings in music and his first big rap competition, Scribble Jam, in which he battled Eminem. In this piece he is talking about his pre-freestyle battle anxiety and what could have happened if he would have been overwhelmed by his anxiety and loose. "Will want you perfect like a leading white male, well could you be?": the leading white male is the judge of the freestyle competition; serious, composed and fearless. And Drucker wished to be like him. “Leading white male” could be a double entendre with the top in a top and bottom relationship, meaning that, like the judge was dominating the stage with his imperious attitude, Drucker wanted a partner that could dominate him like the judge was dominating the audience. Hence the “well, could you be?” at the end of the phrase. The most crucial and heartbreaking point in the song is the pre-chorus: "Like a large dollop of grey plopped hard, in the plain water of hack, you sink": Drucker is talking what could have happened if he lost to the competition against Eminem, simply, he would have died of a drug overdose, fueled by his anxiety. The heroin is hereby described as a “dollop of grey”, since heroin is made by boiling it into a spoon) In the second verse Drucker is talking about the debts officer promise and his army of a hundred forks... like another user in this comment box said, this could be a methaphor of Drucker being to be dryed by those forks, and he is desperate for work and keeps searching for something that can put him out of all of this. In short: he would have become a middleclass worker, loosing his identity and loved ones, destinated to die alone. |
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| Underworld – Stagger Lyrics | 4 months ago |
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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/drugs-are-focus-of-mp-death-inquiry-post-mortem-fails-to-solve-milligan-mystery-as-ministers-mount-damage-limitation-exercise-over-a-personal-tragedy-1392852.html "orange orange in the mouth again, straighten" |
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| Underworld – Stagger Lyrics | 4 months ago |
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It's obviously about a drunk person returining home and his fragmented thoughts, but some points in this song makes me think that this is also about a codependent relationship. Both themes are blended very well, all through Karl Hyde's skillful songwriting skills. In the second verse the narrator is saying to the chick: "I could listen to you all day, what a laugh, cut me, I bleed like you, ha ha" He is basically not satisifed with the relation he is in, but he keeps staying with this girl. And he is sardonically saying that he can listen to her all day, which is obviously a lie. "Cover your teeth, I love you" This line is possibly about Methamphetamine abuse. The girl is abusing said drug, but the narrator is saying to her that she must cover her teeth. Possibly for not the police to discover them. And thus stop their sick "love story". This can be related to a line in the first verse: "Carrying something wrapped in plastic"; the narrator is bringing home some drugs, or something illegal, since he doesn't say what is that. And the next line in the bridge: "Don't bite me yet, I believe in you" The narrator is afraid that one day, the girl can snap some senses in her and escape from him. But he wants this to continue, since they're in a codependent relationship. So we can say that the song's main character is actually the bad guy. He is for sure "guilty as sin". Other things: - orange in the mouth again could be a reference to an MP who died of auto-erotic asphyxiation in 1994 - Curled on the blue velveteen again: a sign of submission and fear |
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| Underworld – Sola Sistim Lyrics | 4 months ago |
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I think this song talks about sex addiction and how is destroying a couple. The narrator talks about a "devious nature", which is obviously his sex addiction and he wants to erase it from his life. But he can't do it, since in the refrain he is saying that his broken fingers (a sign that the narrator is worn out and tired by this life) are beautiful, a thing that he says to the chick in the second verse, meaning that this life is destroying both of the persons. Other interpretations: - "my rest between rubber, my spider shadow": i think that's a reference to latex fetish. - The "shattered dancer" is the girl to which the narrator is speaking, she, like him, is worn out by this life, but can't get out. - The part in the second verse where Karl is listing various objects, i think that he's seeing BDSM objects (a duster looks like a BDSM whip and the striper can represent the scars that intense BDSM sessions can leave), through a very childlike manner, as he's trying to re-gain some innocence, but failing. |
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| Xiu Xiu – Faith, Torn Apart Lyrics | 6 months ago |
| It's definitely about Jamie Stewart's suicidial thoughts, depression and how his faith in mankind is no longer a thing. (given that this song comes after "Petite", which talks about an underage sex worker and the spoken word session at the end was inspired by some photos JS saw on a platform for underage sex trafficking, those might be the things that completely "torn apart" JS's faith in mankind and drove him into his suicidial thoughts) | |
| 13 & God – Walk Lyrics | 9 months ago |
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Probably the most sad Doseone's lyrics set ever. Let's make the point of the situation: The 13&God's self titled is a very dark and eerie album, scattered with sad lyrics about Drucker not wanting to accept himself as an autistic and queer man and fearing the consequences about admitting it. But here we reach the bottom of the sadness: In this track which is a field recording of a walk in a city (here's where the title comes from) with a very garbled Doseone's speech splain above it. "If you think I’m a fighter, than I’m a fighter, but I hate to fight. But pushing me and drive me against my principles, I will do it": This is what about people think of him, there are people that truly love him for what he creates, but he is afraid, he "hates to fight" (i.e. making art just for his fun's sake), since he simply can't. He is afraid of what other people can think if they discover that he is queer or autistic. "I believe in no majesty of boss who wants to, to abuse the authority, but I don’t want to be a boss. I hate to be a boss I tried a long time to, maybe once a week a cried. I cried like a baby.": Drucker admits that he is afraid if even a bigger audience knows about his problems, he is scared of what the other people can think about him. He doesn't want to be known as a "boss" (a way that really good rappers are called) since he is not up to par with them. Drucker closes his monologue, and the entire album with the phrase: "You seem to be very lonesome. Oh yeah, sure": In this whole album Drucker was trying to understand himself and trying to come to terms with his sexuality and accept himself as an autistic man, however, he didn’t make it and thus finds himself back at the starting point, feeling very lonesome, and sad. A field recording of a baby crying is added at the end to keep the constant theme of impotence that is scattered trough this album. |
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| Themselves – Each Ant In Their House Lyrics | 9 months ago |
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For me this track talks about how much Doseone has improved himself as a person, outside of the musical sphere. At the time the latest albums he released with 13 & God and Subtle were so much intimate and bleak, but with this track we came to a resolution, Drucker has no longer fear of what he is really, as in Subtle's "The Ends" he finally accepted himself as a neurodivergent and queer man. He also makes a callback to the 13 & God's song "Low Heaven" when in the verse is using "We" to speak about himself and other people like him that have suffered in his same manner. The saddest thing in this song is the callback line to the old Sole's song "Tourist Trapeze" as a goodbye line to him, since he left Anticon around the album's release date. It is truly a cathartic moment, being alone while having reached the top and having accepted yourself for who you truly are. |
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| Subtle – The Ends Lyrics | 1 year ago |
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This song is basically Doseone deconstructing his entire life in order to understand himself as a neurodivergent and queer man. And in the third part the entire motto of the album is explained: "Can you remain in love when consumed by your most gross of concerns?" Even when you are at your lowest, you must give and feel love everyday. |
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| Zach Hill – Stoic Logic Lyrics | 1 year ago |
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I think this song talks about drug abuse and child abuse, and this theme could be portrayed in other songs from the Astrological Straits album, and it's a very popular theme in the industrial/post-industrial music scene also... But without further ado let's go back into the interpretation! "Cut some new lines in your palms": i use to think this is a reference to cocaine injection, seen in a very childish way, since the "lines" can be thought as the rubber bands with which kids usually play, the adjective "new" indicates that those lines aren't the usual lines with which the kid played with, but, you know, lines of cocaine. "with the night like you own it": a reference to the fact that kids usually doesn't want to go to bed and sometimes want to stay up at night. A drug that can keep you up at night is MDMA, still continuing with the drug abuse/child abuse theme portrayed in the song. "I know, i know, we can go, we can go; climb up the towers": a reference to MDMA's chemical structure, that, seen from a different angle looks like a tower. "Play with the powers": obviously talks about the "powers" that drugs can give, the adjective "play" here is used in a kiddish manner, following the dark theme of the song. "I know, i know, we can go, we can go; M-I-S-S-I-N-G": the premise of a classical hide and seek game between two kids, but its not what it seems; the abused kids will go literally "missing", because of the drugs effects. |
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| 13 & God – Low Heaven Lyrics | 1 year ago |
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I made a long ass interpretation of this song through Genius annotation, but i thought to share it there also. So, to me, this song talks about autism. As an autistic person this song really speaks to me. This song in particular talks about the moment when you, for years, have neglected to be autistic or you hided this side to the world, but you have decided to reveal it. Also, Markus Acher, in an interview for an italian website (https://www.kalporz.com/2005/06/intervista-a-markus-acher-13-god/) said that the main character of this song is a 13 year old kid and how he sees the world and he is not very happy about what he sees. This ties very well to the autism theory, since some people with autism are not very happy about the world in which they live in... But now let's move on the lyrics. The 1st chorus: "They're praying for their lucky stars to shoot". The first mentioned "they" indicates your best friends, the ones that, even after you revealed them this side of you that you have hidden for several years, they will still accept you. You for them, are a lucky star, and they pray that you shoot out this hidden side of you to the world and come out of the shell. "We remain such gluttons for the generous threat of being supreme being safed or susceptible... Subject to a man mold maker with a tendency toward the more dramatic side of everything we are" Here Doseone is saying that if you want to expose our more susceptible side (i.e autism) to the world, this is a “generous threat”. And the “man mold maker” that is referring hereinafter is probably an exploiter or an abusive partner. Since when you first reveal to the world that you are autistic after many years you have denied it, or neglected, and thus you reveal your more susceptible side, you will then encounter a lot of challenges, like toxic relationships, people that won’t take you seriously and employers that will exploit you. Revealing this side of yours to the public eye, as Doseone said, is referred as “generous” because, after you revealed that you are autistic to the world, you will get a lot of support from your friends and you will be happy, but at the same time its a “threat” because there are many profiteers or abusers that want to destroy your life. "And what does modern child mistakenly chalkup To the humongous homogenous win column of god" Probably a reference to Moloch, a canaanite deity associated with child sacrifice . In some illustrations (like this https://images.genius.com/12a55f87b56024f887a46c6576a7fbdd.319x477x1.jpg), he is represented as a giant column. And the “wins” that Adam is referring in this verse, are probably the other souls of children that were reclaimed by the deity in the past. Now we ask ourselves: why a song about autism talks about such deity? Well, according to a survey made by researches of Coventry and Newcastle (read this article, its in italian, use a translator https://www.wired.it/scienza/medicina/2017/05/30/autismo-tasso-suicidi-preoccupante/), the 66% of the 365 participants with a recent diagnosis of Asperger’s syndrome (or pervasive developmental disorder, related to autism) confirmed that they had thought about suicide, while 35% said they had planned or attempted to end their lives. Significantly higher rates than the general population (17%) and patients with psychosis (59%). So, the protagonist of this song, is making this observation about fellow autistic childs chalking themselves to this “column of God” with the only hope for ending their life. The final chorus: "They're threatening their lucky stars to shoot": Doseone its reaffirming that once you’ve finally revealed this hidden side of you, life will become a more harder challenge. But the phrase “lucky stars” was not replaced. Why this? Because no matter if your life will be hard, you’ve finally revelead your more vulnerable side after hiding it for several years, you are more free, and you can always count on support from your friends, your own personal “lucky stars”. They (in this case, the bad guys that you will encounter in your life) will try to threaten your “lucky stars” to shoot you, but they really love you. And so they will never do this. |
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| Zach Hill – Astrological Straits Lyrics | 3 years ago |
| this song always makes me cry: I interpret it as a song who talks about death and the fragility of human beings in general, especially in some lines of the chorus of the song, like\n"how fast can the grass grow?": for me it is a metaphor of time that passes inexorably, meanwhile "How far out did you wanna go?" for me means that no matter how far you go, sooner or later you will cease to exist\n\nwhen Zach in the 2nd verse says "It cut my throat on the curve of the earth\nTook me apart, see how it works", he is saying that sooner or later he too will die, using as a metaphor someone who "will cut his throat on the curve of the earth". \nthat "see how it works" indicates that sooner or later the listener will also die and "see how it works"\n"out in the era with eyes in the back of it\'s head": the era to which Zach refers could be childhood: when you are a child you are not afraid of death and you think about living your life carefree\n\n"Past your league, that force is free" can be a reference to the fact that when you die your soul escapes from your body and becomes free.\n\nthere is a session of the song that hits me the most, the one that starts at 4:04 and ends at 4:32: it\'s like the song also is "dying", the melody is more melancholic, eerie and sad, while the audio is being more "distorted", like it\'s a POV of a dying person who is slowing loosing grip from this world.\n\nat 6:00 starts a new session, that one with only the bass guitar and the drums: a very eerie session, it\'s like the person who the narrator of the song talks to has died and that music it\'s what now is surrounding him: eternal darkness.\n\nin the last chorus the "how fast can the grass grow? How far out did you wanna go?" is replaced with new sentences:\n"How fast can the past show?": obviously a reference to the fact that when you die your life flashes before your eyes, and the final "Where did everyone go?". now the narrator puts himself in the shoes of the person he was talking to and says this last sentence: now he is alone in the afterlife, no one is for him.\nthe song ends with the droning sound of the electric guitar (an obivious reference to the flatline, meaning that the person is died) and some voices in the distance (hear closely at 8:41), giving the idea of an hospital context, with the doctors and the persons who where there walking away from the room.\n\nand did you know what supports my interpretation the most? that this song is about death (according to my theory) and the next and last song on the album (Necromancer) is about a person being brought back from the dead.\nwow. | |
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