Sacrifice my vanity, kick off my heels
A careless weight on your hatred,
Understand it's so simple, a simple please
To keep the faithful on a wounded knee,
To the madness I do confess
I never see myself as blessed
Confused, unaddressed,
Like a saviour I do caress,
The truth is boredom more or less
Unused, obsessed, my time is only given to you,
Too much to choose, it's not mine to contemplate
If I can lose, with this blood on my shoes
Compromise in full extreme, cut off my heels,
Name a price on what's sacred
Guaranteed I've got something,
A royal disease, take a flood to clean these streets
To the madness I do confess, forever see myself as blessed
Immune, obsessed, like a saviour I do caress
The truth is boredom, it's excess
Take more, give less, My time is only given up to you
Too much to choose, it's not mine to contemplate if I can lose
With this blood on my shoes.
A careless weight on your hatred,
Understand it's so simple, a simple please
To keep the faithful on a wounded knee,
To the madness I do confess
I never see myself as blessed
Confused, unaddressed,
Like a saviour I do caress,
The truth is boredom more or less
Unused, obsessed, my time is only given to you,
Too much to choose, it's not mine to contemplate
If I can lose, with this blood on my shoes
Compromise in full extreme, cut off my heels,
Name a price on what's sacred
Guaranteed I've got something,
A royal disease, take a flood to clean these streets
To the madness I do confess, forever see myself as blessed
Immune, obsessed, like a saviour I do caress
The truth is boredom, it's excess
Take more, give less, My time is only given up to you
Too much to choose, it's not mine to contemplate if I can lose
With this blood on my shoes.
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to me it sounds as if the speaker felt as if she was a 'walking zero' because she gave her whole self to this person that, like jdoodles said, didn't appreciate the devotion at all. it's a bad relationship in which one side takes more while the other gives. by the end of the song she resolves to be the one taking more.
A careless weight on your hatred
I understand it's so simple; a simple "please"
To keep the faithful on a wounded knee.
To the madness I do confess:
I never see myself as blessed
(Confused, unaddressed)
Like a saviour I do caress,
The truth is boredom more or less
(Unused, obsessed)
My time is only given to you
Too much to choose
It's not mine to contemplate If I can lose
This blood on my shoes.
Compromise in full extreme, cut off my heels
Name a price on what's sacred
Guaranteed I've got something;
A royal disease
Take a flood to clean these streets
To the madness I do confess: forever see myself as blessed
(Immune, obsessed)
like a saviour I do caress
The truth is boredom, it's excess
(Take more, give less)
My time is only given up to you
Too much to choose
It's not mine to contemplate if I can lose
With this blood on my shoes...
(I think the punctuation may be important in extracting the proper context)
I would say that most of the previous posters are right, but, given the arc of the whole album from start to finish, there's a certain context that can be gleaned. Tracks like "Tesko Suicide" very cleanly comment on a resurgent "female empowerment" trend: women (and with them, girls) taking the reins of a hitherto exclusively masculine sexual role that, according to Sneaker Pimps, is ultimately empty.
At this point in the narrative (that is, the album "Becoming X"), the spokeswoman is describing the painful disparity between how women's emotional priorities and this newly flexed sexual dominance do not, in fact, align.
Great album, seminal trip-hop work.
Name a price on what's sacred"
I love this line! But yeah, I don't really know why either. Don't really get the lyrics, but I do agree with jdoodles for some reason...