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Sola Sistim Lyrics

(Come get some orange juice, it's great.)

My eyes burn naked,
My black cold numbers,
My insecurities,
My devious nature,
Make it go away.

My rest between rubber,
My spider shadow,
My shattered dancer.

Beautiful, broken,
My crystal fingers,
Beautiful, broken,
My crystal fingers.

My glass like rain,
My illumination,
My cracks are sliding,
Shaker, feather,
Rubber, duster,
Cold, cool,
Your fingers, broken,
Beautiful, wonderful,
Paper flaps,
How you love,
Love to love,
Love and stitch,
Shaker, rubber, striper.

Beautiful, broken,
My crystal fingers,
Beautiful, broken,
My crystal fingers.
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fromevery On May 20, 2008
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Cover art for Sola Sistim lyrics by Underworld

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.
My Interpretation
Negative
Subjective
Sadness
Sex Addiction
Relationship Issues
Destruction
Fetishism
Innocence
Cover art for Sola Sistim lyrics by Underworld

I tripped on shrooms to this song. Changed my life. I definitely get a whole new meaning to this song after tripping and listening to it.

Memory

Dude, same here. The first time I did shrooms I was in college shortly after this album came out. My roomates and I had spent the afternoon tripping in the park and we had just returned to the house around sunset to come down when my buddy put this album on. I remember the four of us sitting around the house on couches smoking a hookah and quietly processing the experience, and then "Sola Sistim" started playing, which was the first time I'd heard it. The song just completely blew my mind - the slow groove, insanely-deep bass, spacey snyths,...

 
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