Machiavellism (English)

This is actually a catchy song. But I kinda hated how they played the same riffs over and over again...but nonetheless! One of my favorite songs.

I love this song, you can bounce about to it, I think the way they've repeated the riffs is effective though. Makes it easy to listen too.

Yep! I agree with Methodsofsuicide ^^

This sure as hell is catchy. It's one of my faves. It seems like maybe he doesn't know why he's alive and wants to kill himself. Something down those lines.

It sounds like the requisite song that every band, needs to make on their album or in their career. That one song with a chorus that everyone can sing along to.

definately NOT a requisite song. This is one of my favorites on Withering. Kyo's talking about his life man. How people see him in pain and they sometimes enjoy it. And it's never enough, the pain, becuase there's an emptiness that blood just can't erase. The song seems like a mockery of what he does as a performer. In the first stanza he says : lyrical show time Full of ability It’s the Blood Red show time comical show time Inflammation of vitality It’s the Blood Red show time cynical show time Reality comes to life It’s the Blood Red show time radical show time Eternity breaks It’s the Blood Red show time

He's onstage all the time, and he has to put up this farce image. Wild and crazy, spin his sorrow into beautiful words, and give the people what they want. "Reality comes to life" while the fans and crowd watch with awe as he bleeds, thats his way of existing.

But in all his success, and despite the fact that fans worship him he "still can't find the meaning of his existence"...so he keeps cutting. the repitition of the words just adds to his flippant attitude of doin whatever the hell he wants with his body. I think these lines are in response to some critical comments made saying he was a fake and his performances were not real. Most people think one outgrows self mutilation but for him it's not a ploy or something he thinks he'll outgrow until he finds what he's looking for.

"The voices of the backstabbers stick to me"-all his betrayal that helps to fuel his self destruction. "Someday the voice will head straight to my heart"- he's trying to be flippant about what they say, like it doesn't hurt. "Go ahead and laugh...and break away"- again response to people thinking he's a joke and being amused by his hurt.

The chorus of the song "Hurry wrist cut show"-is his mocking invitation to their concerts to watch him bleed. It's catchy...I mean, who doesn't want to watch a car crash? So the song is decieving on purpose, almost as if to say no one really sees whats happening here.

"Show time it's none of my business"- the blind eye people around him turn to his self mutilation...maybe they think it's an act too.

Then the last lines, which to me are so COld, "Please come to the last gasp with me, my pleasure"-are basically his sad little invitation, once again, to watch him bleed.

I hope that helped some. It's only my interpretation but I figured I'd take a stab at it. Anyway, go listen to it again. The crazy chords and the way he sings it-his voice is laced with cynicism, and the crazy chords just add to how out of control he feels with his cutting and his life.

It's musical genius, this song...just makes me think of how society and people see what they wanna see.

deadxlettersxc that made me cry T_T and i never cry!! ahhh i always hate how he cuts himself you know he's in pain and i don't like it when he hurts himself...i always thought this song was so catchy too but now it'll make me cry...o well i

deadxlettersxc, I haven't really understood this song until now... It's really sad. I never knew Kyo was such an emotional person in real life... ; _ ; I dunno if I can't understand most of his lyrics because I'm pretty young, but I always knew he wrote about his pain.

I would like to thank deadxlettersxc for making me enjoy this song a helluva lot more than I would have already.

I think there is humour in this song how for a second he finds his situation funny and people funny everything for a second seems funny and how as we do with this song find entertainment in other peoples pain. Its one of those songs when you listen to it you feel a part of. Kyo is really really really really talented