Yes, I think the "blackest purse" is the pose of being doomed and suicidal, that young people think is so cool. Yoni admits in verse 1 that he's never got as close to suicide as he's faked on previous lyrics on stage, suicide in fact being a "far off and abstracted" thought.
He worries that by carrying on the pose (like the bowler hat and bow tie posers), he's "failing" his mom (setting a bad example), or "worse" (pandering to teens tendency to think suicidal nihilists are cool).
Yoni denounces himself, and sets a new goal for his now "earnest" hands, no longer to carry that "blackest purse" of the poser death cult, but instead to focus on the TRUTH: the "sharpened steel of truth in every word."
I think he is portraying a gangster hip hop artist that creates this false persona of himself because his fans idolize not what he truly is but who he has created. He feels terrible about who he has become and has suicidal thoughts. Imagine not being able to be yourself. I think it is all to common. He has turned to the only person on earth that knows who he really is.
I think he is portraying a gangster hip hop artist that creates this false persona of himself because his fans idolize not what he truly is but who he has created. He feels terrible about who he has become and has suicidal thoughts. Imagine not being able to be yourself. I think it is all to common. He has turned to the only person on earth that knows who he really is.
Yes, I think the "blackest purse" is the pose of being doomed and suicidal, that young people think is so cool. Yoni admits in verse 1 that he's never got as close to suicide as he's faked on previous lyrics on stage, suicide in fact being a "far off and abstracted" thought.
He worries that by carrying on the pose (like the bowler hat and bow tie posers), he's "failing" his mom (setting a bad example), or "worse" (pandering to teens tendency to think suicidal nihilists are cool).
Yoni denounces himself, and sets a new goal for his now "earnest" hands, no longer to carry that "blackest purse" of the poser death cult, but instead to focus on the TRUTH: the "sharpened steel of truth in every word."
This song is a manifesto for honesty in art.
I think he is portraying a gangster hip hop artist that creates this false persona of himself because his fans idolize not what he truly is but who he has created. He feels terrible about who he has become and has suicidal thoughts. Imagine not being able to be yourself. I think it is all to common. He has turned to the only person on earth that knows who he really is.
I think he is portraying a gangster hip hop artist that creates this false persona of himself because his fans idolize not what he truly is but who he has created. He feels terrible about who he has become and has suicidal thoughts. Imagine not being able to be yourself. I think it is all to common. He has turned to the only person on earth that knows who he really is.
Agreed, but more specifically, perhaps the "blackest purse" is the gains, financial and otherwise, that he's made from said pose.
Agreed, but more specifically, perhaps the "blackest purse" is the gains, financial and otherwise, that he's made from said pose.