We Will Commit Wolf Murder

maybe it's just me but i hear "martyrs wrapped in butcher paper" and god instead of plot

Something's terrorized my psyche to get even, Lately you're the only human I believe in. I've tried to understand his logic but there's just no pattern there, No sympathetic voices anywhere. There's blood in my hair

I'm considered ugly from every angle, You're the only beauty I don't wanna strangle. Can't you hear me crying out for guidance? "Yes we hear but we don't care" No sympathetic victims anywhere There's blood in my hair

I wanna get all fucked up and tell you how I really feel 'Cause your vibrant blackness coco augury is so unreal When I die I want you to die too, Not trying to stay in this or any dimension without you, Spit on this planet without you. I envy you 'cause you can believe in things like I never could And not dose yourself into a coma over the bestiality of our race Or lament our descent into some ancient reptilian form like an agnostic transubstantiation, You wanna know what that is? Use your imagination (sell it)

They paralyzed my psyche to get even, Lately you're the only dancer I believe in I'm a butcher now with blood in my hair, no sympathetic voices anywhere There's blood in my hair

Anti-human armies spring from every angle, You're the only soldier I don't wanna strangle I can see it's a dolorous fate "So don't expect us to cooperate" Anyway, it's five lives too late and there's blood in my hair

My head is a most obliging harbor for this illusion Will these Irish eyes be stung by tears of confusion Will you meet the common end to your odd shaped mission, no it isn't true I don't believe in that kind of god but still, I pray for you We will produce vanity holocausts We will commit acts of misery We will weaponize sightless innocents Then, we will forget

Someone's terrorized my psyche to get even, Lately you're the only human I believe in I suffered pompous death to find her kingdom razed Cherub corpses in the vapor, martyrs wrapped in butcher paper If I'm a monster possessed to mangle, You're the only dancer I don't wanna strangle Can't you hear me crying out for guidance? "Yes we hear but we don't care" There's no sympathetic voices anywhere There's blood in my hair

I saw you laughing but tomorrow you'll say you were there You looked at me in disgust, girl, why should I care? There's blood in my hair

"I'm a butcher now with blood in my hair"

"It's five lives too late"

This isn't necessarily a correction, I just want to point out the fact that "in a sense" could also be "innocence", and there would be no perceivable difference.

^ Woops, wrong song: ""We Will Commit Wolf Murder" "On some level, it's thinking about spiritual crisis, crying out for guidance and not hearing a voice in return, or hearing a nefarious voice. But on another level, also realizing how much we can get out of each other that we don't really need to speak to the heavens for support. We can find it amongst ourselves. Also just feeling like a monster, feeling fucked up and crazy. A lot of this record finds me thinking about the cruelty of humanity and exploring that aspect of the human condition, the way we treat each other. How barbaric and savage we can be, but also wanting to say something beautiful and not completely negative. It blows my mind to think that everyone starts as little babies, so innocent and naive and gentle for the most part, and at some point you become a murderer, you become a torturer – not most people, but a decent amount of people. I don't have a problem necessarily with young people joining the military, but that fact that there is a military, that we need a military, that there are commercials for militaries on TV just blows my mind at this stage of our existence. That we're so small minded about how to resolve conflict that we think it's okay to throw missiles and tanks and drones, airplanes that will just drop bombs wherever we feel like dropping bombs.""

Lyrically, it seems like Kevin has lost hope in the world... that we do not learn from our mistakes, etc. It seems like the world has given up on him - like in the song, Ye, Renew the Plaintiff, he says this age is a bitch that burns our dreams and it's true. Before I read the above I'm going to continue... We are a horrible, terrible race... like a cancer - growing without cause: "We will produce vanity holocausts We will commit acts of misery We will weaponize sightless innocents Then, we will forget"

But it seems like Kevin only has one hope left on this Earth, and it's whoever he is talking about in this song. I dunno, just some thoughts.

to me this song is about still loving someone obsessively even when you really logically shouldnt, all while being very emotionally and mentally on edge and not being able to think clearly. "someones terrorized my psyche to get even" being how the person theyre in love with is constantly doing things that are putting them on edge, and regardless of whether or not its intentionally or not, the narrator thinks it is. "lately youre the only human i believe in" still seeing this person as perfect, subconsciously or consciously. "no sympathetic voices anywhere" no one really understanding the psychological strain the situation has on you, and people thinking its silly or pathetic

Okay, I will attempt to provide a veritable blow-by-blow analysis of this song's lyrical content in another post, operating under the assumption that Kevin is in fact afflicted with some form of psychosis, or psychotic disorder. Accepting the above supposition as true (for the sake of argument), one preemptive point can be made now - wolves seem to play an integral role in the, shall we say, esoteric cosmology of Kevin's psychoses: for instance, in addition to this song's title, wolves appear in the artwork for "False Priest," and in a line from "And I've Seen A Bloody Shadow" which recounts having to hide from a digital wolf. If there is causality between these wolf references, the implicit nature of the wolves is then (hypothetically) that they are invading (perhaps resurgent) hyperspatial and/or pandimensional entities - they an "anti-human army" which has already gained the support of our human systems (they are embraced by both government and organised religion), has dispatched spies (both scouts and deep-cover operatives) for reconnaissance purposes, and ultimately seeks to usurp humanity's position as the dominant species on earth via transubstantiation of form.

Nobody has yet to interpret this song and it consists of such powerful lyrics. I am not the one to interpret it because I don't have the brain power to do so, but someone PLEASE attempt it. It's obvously about someone in pain (suffering) and who feels powerless and lost. Thankfully those are temporary feelings and/or the sufferer has a distorted view of him/herself and his life due to circumstancesa out of his control. Temporary and Distorted...that's what it's really about, I believe.

What Kevin said about this song,

""Ye, Renew the Plaintiff" "This was the first one I started at home and it, in a way, set the tone for the record as far as the style of arrangement: free composition. The song kind of feels like maybe four or five different songs. It's something I've done in the past and a lot of other composers have done that as well. If you have a choice between writing a straight pop song and a through composition style, I tend to enjoy through composition because it's very free. You can do an eight-minute song, you can do a 20-minute song. Zach contributed a lot of really great stuff on that one: the cacophony, the saxes and weird sound. It's definitely one of my favorites on the record.""

CHERUB CORPSES IN THE VAPOR, MARTYRS WRAPPED IN BUTCHER PAPER! <3 Beautiful line. Heard it live. No mistaking it.