Isis

Life Under The Swatter

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This is mosquito control
I'm on the stinging end
Your tongue is spillng pins
A vector of the secret disease
Your voice is like a rusted plane in a rusted sky
Your beak pierces me in the back of my neck
Your skin erupts my skin into a rash
This is mosquito control
I'm on the stinging end
I'm on the stinging end

Mosquito control
Life under the swatter
(Never turn your back,
Never close your eyes)
Pulling wings tight
Strip to paralze
Mosquito control
Breed in stagment warmth
Mating of the filth
(Blood for breeds
Dripping poisoned mouths)
Thin the swarm
Population Controlling
Stinger suck you dry
Digging needle deep

Leaving poison itch
Digging
Mosquito control
Population control
Exterminate the swarm
On wings and needles

Suck me dry
Bleed me dry

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omariman On Jan 26, 2005

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2005-01-26 22:04:07

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by th1nk4y0urself

19y ago

I think Isis here is using mosquitoes as a symbol for mankind and society. Just look at how he uses "mosquito control" and "population control" almost interchangeably. War, genocide, etc. are the "mosquito controls" in the human world. We live under the swatter, ready to be snuffed at any point by those who control our populations. It uses a lot of mosquito imagery but personifies mosquitoes by giving them a voice, skin, a tongue, furthering the comparison to people. The whole "Suck me dry/Bleed me dry" thing refers to man as a parasite, sucking the life out of one another for a survival-of-the-fittest lifestyle.

Then again, I could be wrong.

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