It took me a while to figure out what the heck "What went wrong before? Was I hit this shit looking for loyalty." Dez is a brilliant writer and has written some of my favorite lyrics of all time, but the way the lines are structured in the liner notes usually confuse me. It's customary to separate lines roughly as the measures and bars dictate. But the liner notes sometimes seem to break lines in random places, and add punctuation where it doesn't necessarily fir grammatically. Still, it's usually not to hard to figure out what the lyricist was trying to say in those cases.
I kept thinking the liner notes must be wrong because the aforementioned line just doesn't make sense, grammatically or otherwise. Finally it dawned on me.
"What went wrong before was I hit this shit looking for loyalty." There's a question mark in there which breaks the sentence and makes the line not make logical sense. The question mark should be there (I didn't change it because that's how it's written in the liner notes.) Put another way, he's saying "Things went wrong in the past, and things went wrong because I "hit this shit" or "came into this situation," looking for loyalty, which was a mistake."
This definitely tracks with the main theme of 'Trust No One' as he's basically saying, "don't go into anything expecting loyalty because you'll likely get fucked in the end."
It took me a while to figure out what the heck "What went wrong before? Was I hit this shit looking for loyalty." Dez is a brilliant writer and has written some of my favorite lyrics of all time, but the way the lines are structured in the liner notes usually confuse me. It's customary to separate lines roughly as the measures and bars dictate. But the liner notes sometimes seem to break lines in random places, and add punctuation where it doesn't necessarily fir grammatically. Still, it's usually not to hard to figure out what the lyricist was trying to say in those cases.
I kept thinking the liner notes must be wrong because the aforementioned line just doesn't make sense, grammatically or otherwise. Finally it dawned on me.
"What went wrong before was I hit this shit looking for loyalty." There's a question mark in there which breaks the sentence and makes the line not make logical sense. The question mark should be there (I didn't change it because that's how it's written in the liner notes.) Put another way, he's saying "Things went wrong in the past, and things went wrong because I "hit this shit" or "came into this situation," looking for loyalty, which was a mistake."
This definitely tracks with the main theme of 'Trust No One' as he's basically saying, "don't go into anything expecting loyalty because you'll likely get fucked in the end."
@sinrise edit: "..the question mark should NOT be there."
@sinrise edit: "..the question mark should NOT be there."