I think this song is a coming off of the last album. Where before The High End of Low, he confused love with dependence and confused desire with weakness; after The High End of Low he didn't confuse those things together anymore. And that's where Born Villain picks up.
"Stare into my KodaÑhrome jackhammer eyes."
Kodachrome, as we all know, uses a range of subtractive colors--as opposed to using light--so the more colors you add it becomes black.
"I never thought you’d see the asphalt crack like a black eggshell."
This line reminds me of a line in the song White Knuckles they did back in 1990:
"Smack dab flat on my back, and the solid ground began to crack. I took her down, and down, and down, and down. I lost my breath. I thought I'd drown."
It has a similar theme. In White Knuckles, he fell for her and depended on her. It was a woman he could fear. In Overneath the Path of Misery, its the other way around. He is now a man she can fear.
"Don’t ever say I never warned you from the start. You’re not a shovel and I’m not your dirt."
This kind of follows the theme from 15:
"Not letting you win won't satisfy me, I'll teach you about loss. If you don't know what forever feels like, I'll show you what it feels like without it." - "I don't need you, I'll say it to myself. But it doesn't mean I won't need somebody."
"Is there any way to unswallow my pride. Can I fuck myself down?"
Before, he swallowed his pride to become dependent on who he's with. Now, he's taking it back.
"While I die you can kill the father. 'Dad' is missing an 'E.' "
With I Ching being a big theme in this album, I think that has something to do with this line.
☰ is the symbol for "the creative one." It means force, strength. The head. The father.
I think in this line, he's talking about his change; and saying that while he changes, she can "kill" the part of him that caused him to be what he is now.
"No Macbeth confessed Oedipus, no longer presentence."
In this line, it is neither "present tense" nor pre-sentence.
The word used here is presentence:
Presentence is when someone investigates the history of an accused person, on trial for crime before sentencing to determine whether or not the case could be deemed as less serious in order to lighten the sentence, or the could investigate that history and see if the case could be deemed as worse than thought in order to increase the sentence.
Assuming we all know who Macbeth is, and what the Oedipus complex is:
In this line, he is saying that despite all the things he's done in the past that he's past looking back on them and has "no reason" to ever do so again; just like Macbeth.
"I am overneath" is pretty self-explanatory, I think...
"I won’t regret letting you live even if you forgot what you never saved me from. So I say whatever or for never."
Once again, coming off the previous album. Letting go of the past, including his past relationship.
I think this song is a coming off of the last album. Where before The High End of Low, he confused love with dependence and confused desire with weakness; after The High End of Low he didn't confuse those things together anymore. And that's where Born Villain picks up.
"Stare into my KodaÑhrome jackhammer eyes."
Kodachrome, as we all know, uses a range of subtractive colors--as opposed to using light--so the more colors you add it becomes black.
"I never thought you’d see the asphalt crack like a black eggshell."
This line reminds me of a line in the song White Knuckles they did back in 1990:
"Smack dab flat on my back, and the solid ground began to crack. I took her down, and down, and down, and down. I lost my breath. I thought I'd drown."
It has a similar theme. In White Knuckles, he fell for her and depended on her. It was a woman he could fear. In Overneath the Path of Misery, its the other way around. He is now a man she can fear.
"Don’t ever say I never warned you from the start. You’re not a shovel and I’m not your dirt."
This kind of follows the theme from 15:
"Not letting you win won't satisfy me, I'll teach you about loss. If you don't know what forever feels like, I'll show you what it feels like without it." - "I don't need you, I'll say it to myself. But it doesn't mean I won't need somebody."
"Is there any way to unswallow my pride. Can I fuck myself down?"
Before, he swallowed his pride to become dependent on who he's with. Now, he's taking it back.
"While I die you can kill the father. 'Dad' is missing an 'E.' "
With I Ching being a big theme in this album, I think that has something to do with this line.
☰ is the symbol for "the creative one." It means force, strength. The head. The father.
I think in this line, he's talking about his change; and saying that while he changes, she can "kill" the part of him that caused him to be what he is now.
"No Macbeth confessed Oedipus, no longer presentence."
In this line, it is neither "present tense" nor pre-sentence.
The word used here is presentence:
Presentence is when someone investigates the history of an accused person, on trial for crime before sentencing to determine whether or not the case could be deemed as less serious in order to lighten the sentence, or the could investigate that history and see if the case could be deemed as worse than thought in order to increase the sentence.
Assuming we all know who Macbeth is, and what the Oedipus complex is:
In this line, he is saying that despite all the things he's done in the past that he's past looking back on them and has "no reason" to ever do so again; just like Macbeth.
"I am overneath" is pretty self-explanatory, I think...
"I won’t regret letting you live even if you forgot what you never saved me from. So I say whatever or for never."
Once again, coming off the previous album. Letting go of the past, including his past relationship.
This was my first impression, but it is not part of what the album represents. Disregard. (Any way this can be deleted?)
This was my first impression, but it is not part of what the album represents. Disregard. (Any way this can be deleted?)