The Abusing of the Rib Lyrics

Lyric discussion by madhattin 

Cover art for The Abusing of the Rib lyrics by Atmosphere

unless cheeseburgers' right, here's my take

guy loves girl. really loves girl, doesn't give a shit that she's chaotic and that shit's gonna hit the fan.

but it's not about a drug addiction, it's about a chaotic girl with addictive tendencies. he's the addiction she's picked up this time. in that, he can read all her patterns and has seen what she's gonna do, but can't grasp the reasoning behind it as he's still holding back (i.e. both of them have been hurt before).

this brings in the chorus, where the lyrics above have a line wrong. at the end of each chorus "it" changes to "me." a sort of, "if i be completely honest with you, you would never leave me" but the parallel being "if i opened up, you would tear me to pieces and it would be the end of us."

...so he wants to understand her better.

the end, the "train coming" is the final collapse because it's a chaotic relationship.

anyone here who's been close with someone with an addictive personality knows exactly what i'm talking about. this song is abuot the conflicting pair of impulses, one to run as far as you can and the other to see close you can get. "how close can you get to the flame before you get burned?"

actually madhattin, cheeseburgers is correct in a way. the best thing about music is you can interpret a song any way you want, it all depends on how ur mind works. This song is considered by slug to be "an ode to hip-hop" in this song you notice the multiple lines that say "if i could show you, you would never leave it." Now go and listen to the song "Fuck You Lucy" and the women singing and the beginning and end of the song are saying "it leave never would you you shouw could i if." which if you...

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