Originally had this wonderful breakdown, a couple key lines explained and broken down...but i accidentally hit back and it didn't let me go forward again ugh...
cliffnotes of what i wrote earlier:
"my love is for my man" and "and I romanced some dicks so that I could confess that" suggest that the literal narrative follows a gay man's frustrations (though technically any lover who feels emotionally-oppressed in some way) as he describes through the song why he wants to come out. in the chorus, he rationalizes
"and I romanced some dicks so that I could confess that i get world sick every time i try to take a stand"
every time he stands up, every moment of every day, he feels sick with the world and his place within it. so he decided to embrace his lifestyle (romance some dicks) and come out (confess that, "I get world sick when I take a stand ("I'm tired of this bullshit...") i get world sick my love is for my man ("because damn it, i'm gay and i shouldn't have to hide that").
but that line also acts a connection. look back at the previous lines non-literally:
"we got a mine field of cripple affection"
literal: our flaming passion is hindered by society and considered a disorder ('cripple')
symbolic: we as a collective have so much empathy and desire to change the world (title of song is "WORLD sick"), but it gets labeled as bullshit, trivial, aimless
"all for the borrowed mirror connection"
literal: and to live this life i have to put on this face. this face i put on outside, closeted, feels like it's not mine, it's like looking into the mirror and seeing an unfamiliar face ("borrowed mirror").
symbolic: despite our desire to change the world, we have to go with the day-to-day machine, just to stay alive/afloat, and it feels foreign.
"that why im leavin the spoken detention"
literal: being closeted is not being able to express due to societal pressures and sometimes even actual laws. speech is taken and locked away for-seemingly-ever ('spoken detention'). here the narrator begins to realize coming out is a possibility, and that it should be undergone. it's exciting because the actual action of coming out, and by that i mean 'the mental decision finally being reached to do something, the motivation, the divine realization', is realized right at the peak chorus in this song to the narrator at the same time as the audience.
symbolic: BSS use the metaphor of a gay man feeling closeted, wanting to come out and then (in the chorus) coming out for feeling frustrated at society but also numbed from constant frustration, realizing that this numbness is the problem not the frustrations themselves and then (in the chorus) removing the numbness. here is where the realizing the numbness begins.
"and I romanced some dicks so that I could confess that i get world sick every time i take a stand"
literal: mentioned already, but again, he is coming out due to no longer being able to stomach being closeted.
symbolic: acts a bridge. bridges the developing metaphor with what the metaphor is actually trying to say. allows the audience to gain empathy for the closeted man's situation and this helps better understand the dual-meaning of the song.
"I get world sick my love is for my man"
literal: coming out
symbolic: love for mankind, can't stomach the state of the world anymore or pretend that my numbness to my frustration is rational any longer
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Originally had this wonderful breakdown, a couple key lines explained and broken down...but i accidentally hit back and it didn't let me go forward again ugh... cliffnotes of what i wrote earlier:
"my love is for my man" and "and I romanced some dicks so that I could confess that" suggest that the literal narrative follows a gay man's frustrations (though technically any lover who feels emotionally-oppressed in some way) as he describes through the song why he wants to come out. in the chorus, he rationalizes
"and I romanced some dicks so that I could confess that i get world sick every time i try to take a stand" every time he stands up, every moment of every day, he feels sick with the world and his place within it. so he decided to embrace his lifestyle (romance some dicks) and come out (confess that, "I get world sick when I take a stand ("I'm tired of this bullshit...") i get world sick my love is for my man ("because damn it, i'm gay and i shouldn't have to hide that"). but that line also acts a connection. look back at the previous lines non-literally:
"we got a mine field of cripple affection" literal: our flaming passion is hindered by society and considered a disorder ('cripple') symbolic: we as a collective have so much empathy and desire to change the world (title of song is "WORLD sick"), but it gets labeled as bullshit, trivial, aimless
"all for the borrowed mirror connection" literal: and to live this life i have to put on this face. this face i put on outside, closeted, feels like it's not mine, it's like looking into the mirror and seeing an unfamiliar face ("borrowed mirror"). symbolic: despite our desire to change the world, we have to go with the day-to-day machine, just to stay alive/afloat, and it feels foreign.
"that why im leavin the spoken detention" literal: being closeted is not being able to express due to societal pressures and sometimes even actual laws. speech is taken and locked away for-seemingly-ever ('spoken detention'). here the narrator begins to realize coming out is a possibility, and that it should be undergone. it's exciting because the actual action of coming out, and by that i mean 'the mental decision finally being reached to do something, the motivation, the divine realization', is realized right at the peak chorus in this song to the narrator at the same time as the audience. symbolic: BSS use the metaphor of a gay man feeling closeted, wanting to come out and then (in the chorus) coming out for feeling frustrated at society but also numbed from constant frustration, realizing that this numbness is the problem not the frustrations themselves and then (in the chorus) removing the numbness. here is where the realizing the numbness begins.
"and I romanced some dicks so that I could confess that i get world sick every time i take a stand" literal: mentioned already, but again, he is coming out due to no longer being able to stomach being closeted. symbolic: acts a bridge. bridges the developing metaphor with what the metaphor is actually trying to say. allows the audience to gain empathy for the closeted man's situation and this helps better understand the dual-meaning of the song.
"I get world sick my love is for my man" literal: coming out symbolic: love for mankind, can't stomach the state of the world anymore or pretend that my numbness to my frustration is rational any longer
I write a lot and I'm really into interpretation, objectivity and metaphors/allegories. Peep my website. Click my profile page and it's there.