Slut Song

I think this is about someone who's using uncommitted sex as a way to avoid confronting their unhappy issues. The somber music combined with the lyrics makes me think the speaker is running from their depression by having sex with strangers.

Bits like "shut up and turn out the light" hint that the speaker isn't screwing for personal reasons. They don't want to see this person. They just want that blessed moment of thought-hazing bliss brought on by intense sexual pleasure. "The silence" referred to throughout the song is the product of the speaker's anxieties fading away as they're lost in a haze of rhythmic breathing and pleasure. Parts like "Scatter it anywhere" mean that the speaker isn't even practicing safe sex, but the cavalier way it's said implies that the speaker is simply apathetic at this point.

"that is what all the boys all say" just feels like a not so subtle dig at the way people judge the speaker for doing what she has to do to cope.

I don't know what to make of the final lines. On the one hand, it could be a message to sexually active people: to hell with what the prudes think; you only live once, so make the most of it. That sort of thing. However, the really sad buildup throughout this song, combined with the rest of it hinting at someone using sex as a way to avoid the volume of their thoughts, makes me think it's something else.

"Your story is all that it can be" is at once a declaration of unlimited potential, and a limiting notion. Your story might have unlimited potential if you're both into, say, a wealthy family and you can just keep trying new things. But what if you're not? What if you're both into a situation that doesn't allow for freedom or flexibility, or a life full of abuse and torment? "So make it your best before you die," to me, implies that maybe this speaker wasn't really born with a life capable of producing a grand story. Maybe circumstances forced them into a story that didn't have the potential to go very far, and so the result is this person who realizes they're stuck in a bad situation. Maybe even an unchangeable one. The thoughts gnaw away at her. But since there's nothing she can do, she shuts those thoughts up, turns off the lights, and basks in that temporary silence. In this way, she makes the best of her time before she dies.