It puzzles me that Disturbed have supposedly said this song is about racism.
To me it seems VERY clear that it is a song from the perspective of a (potential) sexual abuser or rapist:
"Yeah, bringing you another disturbing creation
From the mind of one sick animal who can't tell the difference
And gets stupefied"
The person being called 'one sick animal' is the person who gets stupefied. It's right there in the song. He even announces that what follows is 'from the mind of' this person, i.e. when you now hear 'I', that's the animal referring to himself. So this person is a sick animal who can't tell the difference...regarding what? Right...
"I've been waiting my whole life for just one, fuck!
And all I needed was just one, fuck!
How can you say that you don't give a, fuck!
I FIND MYSELF STUPEFIED, COMING BACK AGAIN
All I wanted was just one, fuck!
One tiny little innocent, fuck!
And when I feel like I'm shit out of, Luck!
I find my stupefied, COMING BACK AGAIN"
This sick animal who can't tell the difference wants to fuck. He even says it's ALL he NEEDS, and he keeps emphasizing how just ONE would be enough. This would probably be the point where most people should be going, "Uh, this is not actually about his first love, right?"
I emphasized the bit in caps to show more clearly what the 'difference' is: It's the difference between a yes and a no. The difference between a privilege and a right.
He tells us that the person he wanted to fuck said 'I don't give a fuck', which is short for 'I am not having sex with you, no matter how horny you say you are.' THIS is when he gets stupefied and is 'coming back again'. He is not taking no for an answer. He continues to repeat things like 'one tiny little innocent fuck' like a child trying to get something from a withholding parent, or like a violent criminal who justifies his actions by saying 'All I wanted was XYZ...now look what you made me do!" He has an immature, self-centered sexuality that will get easily frustrated and make him aggressive, as he tells you in the following:
"Why, do you like playing around with
My, narrow scope of reality
I, can feel it all start slipping
I think I'm breaking down"
He blames it all on the other person, suggesting they are 'playing around' with him. He would not be singing of his 'narrow scope of reality' if this was speaking from his own POV as someone wronged by racists. He is speaking as the monster who doesn't realize that he has no right to another person's body just because of how he feels. The chorus is him telling you that over and over:
"See, but I don't get it
Don't you think maybe we could put it on credit
Don't you think it can take control when I don't let it
I get stupefied"
He doesn't get what 'no' means. He wants it 'on credit' as though the other person is an object to purchase, without a free will and rights of their own. He says 'it can take control when I don't let it', which is a clear contradiction. This is him justifying his crime by saying he isn't really responsible, it just overcame him. IT. Like something outside of himself. There is nothing there, though, it's all him, and we already know this is a sick animal with a narrow scope of reality, remember? The lines starting with 'Don't you think...' also show him coming back again and trying to argue with someone who has rejected him.
Then the most genius bit nobody seems to have picked up on from what I have read:
"Tifached
Tifached
And don't deny me
No baby now, don't deny me
And darlin' don't be afraid"
He is telling his victim to BE AFRAID in Hebrew. After he thunders 'DON'T DENY ME!' repeatedly, his '...and darlin', don't be afraid' is sustained, spiraling downward in pitch and volume. It is a hollow travesty of reassurance coming in the wake of such an aggressive onslaught. It is what he says when he finally gets what he was previously denied. It's why he goes from extremely aggressive to reassuring-yet-menacing within a split-second.
I think this is the moment in the song where the act of rape is most heavily implied-- just that it becomes much less clear if you don't translate the Hebrew. The rest of the song is him speaking like he's the victim of something, not a perpetrator to be afraid of. "Be afraid" is not supposed to be spoken by the 'sick animal', which is why it's in a different language. This different language represents the fact that this is the truth while the other things are just the delusional ramblings of a monster.
This is a very intelligently written song. It doesn't actually go into the why or how of people abusing others (and more specifically the issue of rape), but it shows the way such a person's disturbed mind works very effectively. I think Disturbed were messing with y'all when they said this was about an ethnic Romeo and Juliet story. You'd have to worry about David Draiman's mental health if this was his idea of a bigotry-versus-love statement, or of an angry outburst against racists.
@BeAfraid I am afraid I don't agree with you in the slightest. The use of the "fuck" at the end of lines is used in the sense of a frustration rather than a sexual connotation in my opinion. None of the rest really even remotely resembles the view point of a rapist in my opinion.
@BeAfraid I am afraid I don't agree with you in the slightest. The use of the "fuck" at the end of lines is used in the sense of a frustration rather than a sexual connotation in my opinion. None of the rest really even remotely resembles the view point of a rapist in my opinion.
It puzzles me that Disturbed have supposedly said this song is about racism. To me it seems VERY clear that it is a song from the perspective of a (potential) sexual abuser or rapist:
"Yeah, bringing you another disturbing creation From the mind of one sick animal who can't tell the difference And gets stupefied"
The person being called 'one sick animal' is the person who gets stupefied. It's right there in the song. He even announces that what follows is 'from the mind of' this person, i.e. when you now hear 'I', that's the animal referring to himself. So this person is a sick animal who can't tell the difference...regarding what? Right...
"I've been waiting my whole life for just one, fuck! And all I needed was just one, fuck! How can you say that you don't give a, fuck! I FIND MYSELF STUPEFIED, COMING BACK AGAIN
All I wanted was just one, fuck! One tiny little innocent, fuck! And when I feel like I'm shit out of, Luck! I find my stupefied, COMING BACK AGAIN"
This sick animal who can't tell the difference wants to fuck. He even says it's ALL he NEEDS, and he keeps emphasizing how just ONE would be enough. This would probably be the point where most people should be going, "Uh, this is not actually about his first love, right?"
I emphasized the bit in caps to show more clearly what the 'difference' is: It's the difference between a yes and a no. The difference between a privilege and a right.
He tells us that the person he wanted to fuck said 'I don't give a fuck', which is short for 'I am not having sex with you, no matter how horny you say you are.' THIS is when he gets stupefied and is 'coming back again'. He is not taking no for an answer. He continues to repeat things like 'one tiny little innocent fuck' like a child trying to get something from a withholding parent, or like a violent criminal who justifies his actions by saying 'All I wanted was XYZ...now look what you made me do!" He has an immature, self-centered sexuality that will get easily frustrated and make him aggressive, as he tells you in the following:
"Why, do you like playing around with My, narrow scope of reality I, can feel it all start slipping I think I'm breaking down"
He blames it all on the other person, suggesting they are 'playing around' with him. He would not be singing of his 'narrow scope of reality' if this was speaking from his own POV as someone wronged by racists. He is speaking as the monster who doesn't realize that he has no right to another person's body just because of how he feels. The chorus is him telling you that over and over:
"See, but I don't get it Don't you think maybe we could put it on credit Don't you think it can take control when I don't let it I get stupefied"
He doesn't get what 'no' means. He wants it 'on credit' as though the other person is an object to purchase, without a free will and rights of their own. He says 'it can take control when I don't let it', which is a clear contradiction. This is him justifying his crime by saying he isn't really responsible, it just overcame him. IT. Like something outside of himself. There is nothing there, though, it's all him, and we already know this is a sick animal with a narrow scope of reality, remember? The lines starting with 'Don't you think...' also show him coming back again and trying to argue with someone who has rejected him.
Then the most genius bit nobody seems to have picked up on from what I have read:
"Tifached Tifached
And don't deny me No baby now, don't deny me And darlin' don't be afraid"
He is telling his victim to BE AFRAID in Hebrew. After he thunders 'DON'T DENY ME!' repeatedly, his '...and darlin', don't be afraid' is sustained, spiraling downward in pitch and volume. It is a hollow travesty of reassurance coming in the wake of such an aggressive onslaught. It is what he says when he finally gets what he was previously denied. It's why he goes from extremely aggressive to reassuring-yet-menacing within a split-second.
I think this is the moment in the song where the act of rape is most heavily implied-- just that it becomes much less clear if you don't translate the Hebrew. The rest of the song is him speaking like he's the victim of something, not a perpetrator to be afraid of. "Be afraid" is not supposed to be spoken by the 'sick animal', which is why it's in a different language. This different language represents the fact that this is the truth while the other things are just the delusional ramblings of a monster.
This is a very intelligently written song. It doesn't actually go into the why or how of people abusing others (and more specifically the issue of rape), but it shows the way such a person's disturbed mind works very effectively. I think Disturbed were messing with y'all when they said this was about an ethnic Romeo and Juliet story. You'd have to worry about David Draiman's mental health if this was his idea of a bigotry-versus-love statement, or of an angry outburst against racists.
awesome interpretation. Nail on the head.
awesome interpretation. Nail on the head.
@BeAfraid I am afraid I don't agree with you in the slightest. The use of the "fuck" at the end of lines is used in the sense of a frustration rather than a sexual connotation in my opinion. None of the rest really even remotely resembles the view point of a rapist in my opinion.
@BeAfraid I am afraid I don't agree with you in the slightest. The use of the "fuck" at the end of lines is used in the sense of a frustration rather than a sexual connotation in my opinion. None of the rest really even remotely resembles the view point of a rapist in my opinion.