| Massive Attack – Dissolved Girl Lyrics | 7 months ago |
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@[Germ:53680] Massive Attack typically keep their lyrics ambiguous. Obviously, the main thing in the clip is sex. But, as an aside, then there seems to be a part of trying to pretend to be someone other than yourself. Further, the way they collect her tears is just another Pandora's Box of more questions than answers. It's about how we use escape and how alluring it is despite us gradually getting more and more lost. Eventually, we end up dissolving ourselves within every attempt to escape. So, it could readily be sex, drugs, or any other form of addiction or dependence. I was addicted to heroin when this song came out, so on a personal level, it is definitely about a foolish attempt to find myself by escaping my life with drugs. Even though there's always the risk of overdosing and physical assault if you don't know the right people in a given area, the life of finding ways and means to get enough money to then get the substance that you know will make you feel physically and emotionally ok at least for a little while is much more appealing than facing up to decades of family abuse and neglect with no positive coping skills ever even mentioned to you in the vain hope that reliving all that shit will make you feel whole, content, and without lingering resentments. |
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| Massive Attack – Dissolved Girl Lyrics | 7 months ago |
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I agree with a lot of what people have said. Knowing Massive Attack, they are rarely literal and typically more ambiguous. The song is definitely about getting lost in a void of trying to cover pain and in doing so remember your identity. Most of the clip is sexual/sensual, but note the different creatures she walks amongst and the police who violently attempt to arrest her possibly for being different or just being herself, or because they know her real self is hidden. The end when we see the man who seems to be searching for her,and the part where she cries and some lab coat collects her tears. It seems like a commentary about how the system tries to feed us our fears of being alone in order to literally milk us of our essence. Now, trying to keep this ambiguous, that could be purely self-fuelled doubt, addiction of any kind from sex to drugs, or that weird feeling of isolation a lot of us get when we try to be genuine towards others. 25 years on and still one of my favourite songs. I feel blessed to have been raised on this in my teens and 20's. |
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