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Skin Traps Lyrics
She's a lifestyle grinder
Ingesting crimewave sauce
And once you get behind her
You can write it off as a loss
She commands the minotaur
And she designs the maze
She's demanding more guitars
That sound like Purple Haze
Love lights stay up all nights
I murdered you
If you can't sing and dance for the man
You will be replaced by kids who can
I spent my youth spinning yarns
With the lady of the manor
Now everyone's avoiding me
Because I got the scanner
If you turn around I'll be behind you
I promise you
And if you feel yourself begin to snap
Falling into the skin trap
But when you go to shoot the messenger
It's like your sending your own message
To the person who sent the original message
Hey!
Her lies are password protected
And stored on backup drives
On the night her statue was erected
I broke out in hives
Love lights stay up all night
I'm feeling you
I've been famous for the last few days
But now I'm going away
If you turn around I'll be behind you
I promise you
And if you feel yourself begin to snap
Falling into the skin trap
She sets the skin trap
(And I fall in love)
She sets the skin trap
(And I fall in love)
She sets the skin trap
(And I fall in love)
She sets the skin traps
Hey!
Ingesting crimewave sauce
And once you get behind her
You can write it off as a loss
And she designs the maze
She's demanding more guitars
That sound like Purple Haze
I murdered you
If you can't sing and dance for the man
You will be replaced by kids who can
With the lady of the manor
Now everyone's avoiding me
Because I got the scanner
I promise you
And if you feel yourself begin to snap
Falling into the skin trap
It's like your sending your own message
To the person who sent the original message
Hey!
And stored on backup drives
On the night her statue was erected
I broke out in hives
I'm feeling you
I've been famous for the last few days
But now I'm going away
I promise you
And if you feel yourself begin to snap
Falling into the skin trap
(And I fall in love)
She sets the skin trap
(And I fall in love)
She sets the skin trap
(And I fall in love)
She sets the skin traps
Hey!
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Submitted by
hornytheclown On Nov 11, 2013
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Skin trap, I assume, means hot people. The narrator seems like someone who use to be popular/a star, but has since been marginalized and replaced by a new generation.
Not sure what he means by the scanner.
Not saying this is the only interpretation but I feel like one needs to have had some sort of relationship with a notoriously promiscuous woman in order to understand this song. “She's a lifestyle grinder/Ingesting crimewave sauce/And once you get behind her/You can write it off as a loss/She commands the minotaur/And she designs the maze/She's demanding more guitars/That sound like Purple Haze.” She’s high maintenance; she does a lot of drugs or likes to party a lot so that she “grinds” down your lifestyle. You have sex with her and it’s not a real sexual conquest because she is...
Not saying this is the only interpretation but I feel like one needs to have had some sort of relationship with a notoriously promiscuous woman in order to understand this song. “She's a lifestyle grinder/Ingesting crimewave sauce/And once you get behind her/You can write it off as a loss/She commands the minotaur/And she designs the maze/She's demanding more guitars/That sound like Purple Haze.” She’s high maintenance; she does a lot of drugs or likes to party a lot so that she “grinds” down your lifestyle. You have sex with her and it’s not a real sexual conquest because she is uninhibited and has a lot of sex on drugs anyways (crimewave sauce). BUT she’s a sexually compelling or commanding woman (commands stuff) even though she’s tasteless (demands more guitars that sound like Purple Haze), so Electric Six falls in love.
Pretty sure “spending my youth spinning yarns with the lady of the manor/now everyone’s avoiding me/because I’ve got the scanner” means that he had sex with the “lady” and now everyone is both avoiding him because he can tell who she’s had sex with and because he had sex with her in the first place (that’s how he got the “scanner”). The sort of dual difficulty of social stigma from falling in love and consorting with promiscuous women and the paranoia that comes from knowing when people are sleeping with your love interest that causes you to be avoided. Rightfully, because 1. you are an idiot for falling in love with a person who will not reciprocate, 2. you are publically considered an idiot for knowing better. Also, “skin traps” is definitely a euphemism for vagina.
What else, “Love lights stay up all nights/I murdered you/If you can't sing and dance for the man/You will be replaced by kids who can.” I take this to be that he had really bad sex with said girl and so quickly got replaced by other “kids.” “But when you go to shoot the messenger/It's like your sending your own message/To the person who sent the original message.” You hate the guys who sleep with her but by doing so you just learn that hate her all the same and nothing is different.
Just find someone who loves you back Electric Six. Fall into the skin traps if you want gents, just wear protection and don’t fall in love. I just saw Electric Six perform this song, they are a hilarious sad burnt out band.
Great interpretation. I think you might be dead on.
Great interpretation. I think you might be dead on.