Overall about difficult moments of disappointment and vulnerability. Having hope and longing, while remaining optimistic for the future. Encourages the belief that with each new morning there is a chance for things to improve.
The chorus offers a glimmer of optimism and a chance at a resolution and redemption in the future.
Captures the rollercoaster of emotions of feeling lost while loving someone who is not there for you, feeling let down and abandoned while waiting for a lover. Lost with no direction, "Now I'm up in the air with the rain in my hair, Nowhere to go, I can go anywhere"
The bridge shows signs of longing and a plea for companionship. The Lyrics express a desire for authentic connection and the importance of Loving someone just as they are. "Just in passing, I'm not asking. That you be anyone but you”
We got a minefield of crippled affection
All for the borrowed mirror connection
That's why I'm leaving this spoken detention
I'm a romance addict so that I can confess that
I get world sick every time I take a stand
Well, I get world sick, my love is for my man
We got a lady who's wanting to dance
Men with the maybe looking for endings
And I get world sick every time I take a stand
Yeah, I get world sick, my love is for my man
I'm sick of the self-love, losing the bless me
The exit the roof of the rule of what we'll be
And all the destroyers that never wore dresses
They live for the older, well I'll confess this
I get world sick every time I take a stand
Yeah, I get world sick, my love is for my man
Well, I get world sick every time I take a stand
Yeah, I get world sick, my love is for my man
All for the borrowed mirror connection
That's why I'm leaving this spoken detention
I'm a romance addict so that I can confess that
I get world sick every time I take a stand
Well, I get world sick, my love is for my man
We got a lady who's wanting to dance
Men with the maybe looking for endings
And I get world sick every time I take a stand
Yeah, I get world sick, my love is for my man
I'm sick of the self-love, losing the bless me
The exit the roof of the rule of what we'll be
And all the destroyers that never wore dresses
They live for the older, well I'll confess this
I get world sick every time I take a stand
Yeah, I get world sick, my love is for my man
Well, I get world sick every time I take a stand
Yeah, I get world sick, my love is for my man
Lyrics submitted by wehateyourhate, edited by scottith
World Sick Lyrics as written by Charles Spearin Brendan Canning
Lyrics © Peermusic Publishing
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Originally had this wonderful breakdown, a couple key lines explained and broken down...but i accidentally hit back and it didn't let me go forward again ugh... cliffnotes of what i wrote earlier:
"my love is for my man" and "and I romanced some dicks so that I could confess that" suggest that the literal narrative follows a gay man's frustrations (though technically any lover who feels emotionally-oppressed in some way) as he describes through the song why he wants to come out. in the chorus, he rationalizes
"and I romanced some dicks so that I could confess that i get world sick every time i try to take a stand" every time he stands up, every moment of every day, he feels sick with the world and his place within it. so he decided to embrace his lifestyle (romance some dicks) and come out (confess that, "I get world sick when I take a stand ("I'm tired of this bullshit...") i get world sick my love is for my man ("because damn it, i'm gay and i shouldn't have to hide that"). but that line also acts a connection. look back at the previous lines non-literally:
"we got a mine field of cripple affection" literal: our flaming passion is hindered by society and considered a disorder ('cripple') symbolic: we as a collective have so much empathy and desire to change the world (title of song is "WORLD sick"), but it gets labeled as bullshit, trivial, aimless
"all for the borrowed mirror connection" literal: and to live this life i have to put on this face. this face i put on outside, closeted, feels like it's not mine, it's like looking into the mirror and seeing an unfamiliar face ("borrowed mirror"). symbolic: despite our desire to change the world, we have to go with the day-to-day machine, just to stay alive/afloat, and it feels foreign.
"that why im leavin the spoken detention" literal: being closeted is not being able to express due to societal pressures and sometimes even actual laws. speech is taken and locked away for-seemingly-ever ('spoken detention'). here the narrator begins to realize coming out is a possibility, and that it should be undergone. it's exciting because the actual action of coming out, and by that i mean 'the mental decision finally being reached to do something, the motivation, the divine realization', is realized right at the peak chorus in this song to the narrator at the same time as the audience. symbolic: BSS use the metaphor of a gay man feeling closeted, wanting to come out and then (in the chorus) coming out for feeling frustrated at society but also numbed from constant frustration, realizing that this numbness is the problem not the frustrations themselves and then (in the chorus) removing the numbness. here is where the realizing the numbness begins.
"and I romanced some dicks so that I could confess that i get world sick every time i take a stand" literal: mentioned already, but again, he is coming out due to no longer being able to stomach being closeted. symbolic: acts a bridge. bridges the developing metaphor with what the metaphor is actually trying to say. allows the audience to gain empathy for the closeted man's situation and this helps better understand the dual-meaning of the song.
"I get world sick my love is for my man" literal: coming out symbolic: love for mankind, can't stomach the state of the world anymore or pretend that my numbness to my frustration is rational any longer
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