Isn't Everyone

This song features the Los Angeles alt rock band 'HEALTH' it's a collaboration. I'm basing my analysis partially on Jake Duzik (singer/guitarist) of HEALTH's comments on the song. He says the part of the lyrics he wrote were more on the abstract side, having to do with the chaotic political backdrop of 2020 & all the issues that piled up during that time as well. I agree with that of course, the lyrics do speak to this, I also feel they describe the conflict everyone feels about in general - such as; what is right & wrong in society, when to cancel others, when to speak up & when to step down. I think the song is saying we get the result we ask for when we fail to make the choices we have to.

This almost sounds like Head Like a Hole part 2.

Head Like a Hole was very feisty, deliberate, and independent, to say the least, and somewhere along the way we confused seeking individual meaning for ourselves as being synonymous with loneliness, and then tried to fix the loneliness with aligning to thoughtless purpose of others’. So now we have a very troubled and frustrating problem where the bitterness toward the world and wanting to change it cannot be legitimate because it doesn’t mean anything personal to us at this point in time.

It’s almost like resignation or giving up.

I find it even more interesting when listening to

• Head Like a Hole
• I’m on a roll by Ashley O
• then this song

In that order, because it’s almost like they’re talking to each other and the resignation is: you did this to yourself because you never gave it a meaning in the first place.