I'm hearing ambivalence, resolve. Definitely opens "Want you to stay in a subtle way/like you(re) walking again all on me." She's drawn to some guy who's bad news. "...[D]ark places/what a simple web we weave" -- she's aware of the troubled dynamic and her part in it. Yet she's ambivalent -- Karen O seems to alternate "We've SEEN the nightmare of the lies" with "we SEEK the nightmare of the lies." "The Beast..that's coming in" could be the joker she's with or her stronger, more resilient self. Then a rallying cry to that stronger self (know/oh my soul, a hundred years old, prison queen, iron heart, more alive).
Question is: why does she "want [him] to stay" in the first place -- why seek out a nightmare? Because life is dark and boring anyways. Instead of fearing it or resenting it, you rally; you invite chances to live it and summon from within your soul to handle it directly.
I'm hearing ambivalence, resolve. Definitely opens "Want you to stay in a subtle way/like you(re) walking again all on me." She's drawn to some guy who's bad news. "...[D]ark places/what a simple web we weave" -- she's aware of the troubled dynamic and her part in it. Yet she's ambivalent -- Karen O seems to alternate "We've SEEN the nightmare of the lies" with "we SEEK the nightmare of the lies." "The Beast..that's coming in" could be the joker she's with or her stronger, more resilient self. Then a rallying cry to that stronger self (know/oh my soul, a hundred years old, prison queen, iron heart, more alive).
Question is: why does she "want [him] to stay" in the first place -- why seek out a nightmare? Because life is dark and boring anyways. Instead of fearing it or resenting it, you rally; you invite chances to live it and summon from within your soul to handle it directly.