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I never thought it was the Bs getting the As to thank them for the music. It's clearly ABBA thanking the fans for "giving" the music to them, since it's the listeners that make a song a hit, and it's the listeners who feel "the joy they're bringing."

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By not considering the consequences - and therefore meaning - of our choices, we fail to take responsibility for our freedom, inevitably reinforcing power structures and turning the world into a more cynical place.

While I appreciate The Antlers sparing a thought for the mass violence we inflict on trillions of other sensuous beings - beings who possess intelligence, subjectivity, complex emotions, and a demonstrated vulnerability to trauma (that includes fishes) - the lyrics focus on the means of their exploitation and killing, therefore taking the latter two for granted. And that's the same as saying their freedom and lives...

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Back in the Day

The song is about someone who has never loved and never been in a relationship. He feels the soil falling over his head because he might as well be dead with a loveless existence stretching out before him, and appeals to his mother as the only female figure of importance in his life. The "sad veiled bride" section refers to his jealousy of others ("loud loutish lovers" even), whom he presumably feels he is emotionally superior to and more deserving than, however it is these less pleasant male figures that end up with a woman. "It never really began, but...

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The river is your anger. The dam is what someone breaks holding that river of anger back. Second verse explains what happened to me. My friend got in an argument inside 7-11. The guy was yelling at him as he stood next to me outside. I turned my head and spit. He pushed my head up against the wall and said don't spit while I'm talking to you. I pushed him hard. As he went backwards I punched him and he flew backwards. As his head bounced off the ground I came around and kicked him 5 times in...

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This track describes a terrifying, transformative, almost parasitic spiritual ascension where a being consumes humanity's essence, offering liberation from pain for a horrific, divine merging, moving beyond death into a new, painful godlike state where the self becomes a vessel for this overwhelming power, feeling flesh decay as spirit "uncoils" to embrace this ultimate, unsettling "Godhood". It's a dark, visceral take on achieving godhood through annihilation, not transcendence.

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great song

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