Silver Future Lyrics

Lyric discussion by j113949856 

Cover art for Silver Future lyrics by Monster Magnet

"Hey little cookie take a walk my way I like to hear what you have to say You know the truth and your so put together Baby I could stick you on the lip of forever Even a volcano has a price to pay"

He's picking her up and asking her on a date. "hey little cookie, take a walk my way".
"I like to hear what you have to say." He wants to listen to her, not just love her for her body.

"You know the truth and your so put together Baby I could stick you on the lip of forever" She's smart, she understands how to control men. She's done all that she can to make herself as attractive as conceivable. She knows how to act mysterious. He could "stick her on the lip of forever", perhaps because of her ambition for something vague and "out there". Femme fatales want to preserve their mystique. In keeping with the astronomical theme that Wyndorf alludes to (to get a clue, he has another song called "space lord"), mystery has a connection to the cosmos. The cosmos is infinite. Someone who investigates a mystery, at first, feels as if they need infinite information to solve it, and this continues right up until they get the answer.

"Even a volcano has a price to pay" She's smoking hot, like a volcano. But even a volcano has a price to pay to the universe. It doesn't matter how hot or ambitious or strong a woman is. They cannot conquer the universe. Instead, they live in it like the rest of us, and they pay for the consequences that they create.

"What kinda creature do we have here It feels like love but it smells like fear"

It's the feeling that an attractive woman might feel if their plan is just to have sex with a man, and then leave soon after. The woman who wants to dig for the man's riches, feels fear. He will be angry when she leaves. She wants him to fall in love, and then leave him. The man also feels fear. Will she love me? If she's really attractive, that fear can be greater, because she seems like a bigger catch, one that other men will compete for as well.

"Look in the mirror baby what do you dream Look at it harder now and you start to scream" She looks in the mirror, and she dreams of success. Of fulfillment of some vague ambition for some large amount of money. But she looks at it harder, and then she can't see what comes after. What will she do with all that money? Will other men trust her after what she did? Will she ever be able to settle down because of this? Her future looks like an abyss if she ends up old and alone. For all her smarts, for all her time spent heading down this path, will it be worth it?

"We finding out what drives your machine" He wants to understand her, so that he can decide whether or not to give her the steady relationship that she really wants.

"You stand on the edge of a silver future" A silver future is one in which she may still have some money and some fulfillment, but not the Hollywood golden future of maximum fulfillment and maximum riches. It's also silver in the sense that when she gets old, she'll lose much of her sex appeal. She's standing on the edge, so she has to make her decision now, or while she's still young of body. Her future also tempts her mind, because she still seems to have a lot of time, because she's young. And yet, that's the trick of the devil - she really doesn't have a lot of time. It's deceptive. The silver future could be the glimmer of a knife's edge.

"Hey no we don't let go we all need a daddy" And yet, she's young, and this makes the decision more difficult, because it's still early for her. The man who wants to love her for who she is, and not only for her body, is the one who can help her make this decision. This doesn't mean letting go of her independence, however. Someone who loves her will still respect her freedom.

So it's basically a song that wants a compromise between the messaging of feminism and that of the anti-feminists.

Women don't need to be stuck in the home, but the pretty 8/10 and above, also shouldn't go thinking they can live how they want.

My Interpretation
Negative
Subjective
Fear
Relationships
Gender Roles
Mystery
Ambition
Self-discovery

@j113949856 And the reason it sounds like a creepy song, is because it's basically poking fun at feminism. How feminism thinks this sort of thing is creepy, especially if it's a guy lecturing a woman about it. Typically they would critique such a guy as creepy.

Always fun to imagine Wyndorf leaning into the microphone and whispering with a lecherous look in his eyes, "Hey little cookie take a walk my way" :D

@j113949856 ""We finding out what drives your machine" He wants to understand her, so that he can decide whether or not to give her the steady relationship that she really wants. "

But does she really want the steady relationship? Or does she want money? Does she understand what really drives her machine? They're both finding out. That's a part of it too. That's why the song sounds so seedy. It's intimate, but there's a sense of anxiety over the unknown.