I'm very convinced that this song is about having awful depression. The first time I heard this song, it hit me like a truck. It perfectly describes my entire experience of having treatment-resistant depression for 8 years in three-and-a-half minutes of music. Overall, amazing song by Josh Homme.
I think you're right - it sounds very much like depression.
Depression makes you sit around doing nothing.
I think you're right - it sounds very much like depression.
Depression makes you sit around doing nothing.
It also links in with the lyrics:
"To be vulnerable is needed most of all
If you intend to truly fall apart"
It also links in with the lyrics:
"To be vulnerable is needed most of all
If you intend to truly fall apart"
Depression is linked with memory loss.
I hope you're out of it, a horrible place to be.
Depression is linked with memory loss.
I hope you're out of it, a horrible place to be.
I personally think it's about a coping mechanism many people employ where they're not actually out of depression but actually manage to get on with life. So they're not just sat around.
I personally think it's about a coping mechanism many people employ where they're not actually out of depression but actually manage to get on with life. So they're not just sat around.
As for does anyone getting it right... no.
The foolish...
As for does anyone getting it right... no.
The foolish stumble into the easiest paths or leave a trail of devastation in their wake.
The arrogant claim to, but they're just narcissists who leave just as much devastation behind them.
I'm with you on this. The lack of feeling thing, I mean, sometimes you might feel bad, but so often you try to describe what your feeling (even to yourself) and you feel nothing - hard to describe if you haven't felt it, but for me, it's like nothing's getting through in either direction, no connection, all alone in a crowd, feeling no love. There's still feeling inside, normally kinda painful, but I can't relate it to the world, it sort of feeds on itself from there.
I'm with you on this. The lack of feeling thing, I mean, sometimes you might feel bad, but so often you try to describe what your feeling (even to yourself) and you feel nothing - hard to describe if you haven't felt it, but for me, it's like nothing's getting through in either direction, no connection, all alone in a crowd, feeling no love. There's still feeling inside, normally kinda painful, but I can't relate it to the world, it sort of feeds on itself from there.
For coping, I tend (lately at least) to just close off. ...
For coping, I tend (lately at least) to just close off. For Homme, being vulnerable sounds like opening up to others and exposing vulnerability as a way to reconnect, and get help to emerge after "truely falling apart". That part, I'm awful at. I think most of us are.
The actual vampyre of time and memory - that I don't know, but the rest feels a lot like me, what I feel when I'm in deep. Disconnected, not just from others, but from me (that "I kinda don't know who I am right now" feeling).
My theory on the Vampyre: I've a feeling the Vampyre is about Homme's time in Hospital under sedation/not with it, having nearly died, not remembering visits, people, what happened, post op meds, confusion. It dies when he's medically better, but he's lost that time that memory and he's trapped in depression, lost connection and feeling with those he loves, alone in this crowd.
I'm very convinced that this song is about having awful depression. The first time I heard this song, it hit me like a truck. It perfectly describes my entire experience of having treatment-resistant depression for 8 years in three-and-a-half minutes of music. Overall, amazing song by Josh Homme.
I think you're right - it sounds very much like depression. Depression makes you sit around doing nothing.
I think you're right - it sounds very much like depression. Depression makes you sit around doing nothing.
It also links in with the lyrics: "To be vulnerable is needed most of all If you intend to truly fall apart"
It also links in with the lyrics: "To be vulnerable is needed most of all If you intend to truly fall apart"
Depression is linked with memory loss. I hope you're out of it, a horrible place to be.
Depression is linked with memory loss. I hope you're out of it, a horrible place to be.
I personally think it's about a coping mechanism many people employ where they're not actually out of depression but actually manage to get on with life. So they're not just sat around.
I personally think it's about a coping mechanism many people employ where they're not actually out of depression but actually manage to get on with life. So they're not just sat around.
As for does anyone getting it right... no. The foolish...
As for does anyone getting it right... no. The foolish stumble into the easiest paths or leave a trail of devastation in their wake. The arrogant claim to, but they're just narcissists who leave just as much devastation behind them.
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I'm with you on this. The lack of feeling thing, I mean, sometimes you might feel bad, but so often you try to describe what your feeling (even to yourself) and you feel nothing - hard to describe if you haven't felt it, but for me, it's like nothing's getting through in either direction, no connection, all alone in a crowd, feeling no love. There's still feeling inside, normally kinda painful, but I can't relate it to the world, it sort of feeds on itself from there.
I'm with you on this. The lack of feeling thing, I mean, sometimes you might feel bad, but so often you try to describe what your feeling (even to yourself) and you feel nothing - hard to describe if you haven't felt it, but for me, it's like nothing's getting through in either direction, no connection, all alone in a crowd, feeling no love. There's still feeling inside, normally kinda painful, but I can't relate it to the world, it sort of feeds on itself from there.
For coping, I tend (lately at least) to just close off. ...
For coping, I tend (lately at least) to just close off. For Homme, being vulnerable sounds like opening up to others and exposing vulnerability as a way to reconnect, and get help to emerge after "truely falling apart". That part, I'm awful at. I think most of us are.
The actual vampyre of time and memory - that I don't know, but the rest feels a lot like me, what I feel when I'm in deep. Disconnected, not just from others, but from me (that "I kinda don't know who I am right now" feeling).
My theory on the Vampyre: I've a feeling the Vampyre is about Homme's time in Hospital under sedation/not with it, having nearly died, not remembering visits, people, what happened, post op meds, confusion. It dies when he's medically better, but he's lost that time that memory and he's trapped in depression, lost connection and feeling with those he loves, alone in this crowd.