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Hate how this song can fit my 4 "Doomed by the narrative" media. (Hnk, Orv, Ptutu, Rgu)

Heres where i got the lyrics from in case you were wondering.

Anyways can someone do lyric analysis on this song? Please?

Are you by any chance neurodivergent?

If not, I disagree /j

Scylla Analysis: How Odysseus And Eurylochus Are More Similar (And Different) Than We Realized

“deep down you hide a reason for shame”

Eurylochus shameful that he’s the one who opened the bag while Odysseus was asleep. Odysseus hiding the fact he knew what would happen in Scylla’s lair.

“deep down you know that we are the same”

Eurylochus wanting to escape Circe’s island with Odysseus and leave the rest of the crew behind, letting them die by being eaten as pigs. Odysseus leading six men to their deaths by intentionally handing out six torches. Scylla has six heads

“leaving them feeling betrayed, breaking the bonds that you’ve made”

Eurylochus betraying Odysseus as a second in command (and friend) by openly doubting him and opening the bag when expressly told not. Odysseus breaking Eurylochus’s trust as a captain by leading his crew to the lair and sacrificing six men, six friends, one of them being Eurylochus (until another member of the crew pushes him out of the way and sacrifices themself)

“there is no price we won’t pay”

Odysseus pays the price of Eurylochus choosing to mutinize (and kill the cow) in an attempt to save himself and the crew (the latter although reckless and basically an unintentional death sentence being done so they all wouldn’t starve). Eurylochus (and the crew) pays the price of Odysseus choosing to save himself when Zeus arrives.

“we both know what it takes to survive”

Interestingly, during the mutiny Eurylochus and the crew chose not to kill Odysseus (at least not in the moment) and even bandaged his wounds that they inflicted while he was unconscious to prevent him from bleeding out. In that moment, they chose to show mercy. However, there is no mercy on Odysseus’s end when Zeus tells him to make a choice. There is only ruthlessness done out of desperation, as the only person Odysseus chooses to show mercy to is himself.

Both know exactly what it takes to survive, as Odysseus voice shakes with despair knowing what he’s about to do while Eurylochus, soundly sadly resigned, accepts his fate. There is a brother’s final stand coming to its end and both know it. And they know only one of them will make it out alive

Been thinking a lot about Northern Attitude by Noah Kahan (the hozier version) specifically the line.

“If I get to close

And I’m not how you hoped

Forgive my Northern Attitude

Oh I was raised out in the cold”

And it’s a simple line but it’s sung with so much apology that it immediately stood out to me, combined with having heard Hozier explain the thought behind To Someone from a Warmer Climate, how it’s about the way that the phyical climate of the places we grow up affect the way we showcase and experience love, it proceeded to consume my every waking moment

Cause, interestingly, these two pieces are clashing. As To Someone from a Warmer Climate focuses more on how the cold allows you to hold each other close for warmth and how that builds a relationship but that makes it that when you finally experience the heat you’re uncomfortable in it, you don’t know what to do with it. What is our relationship if we don’t need to keep each other warm?

While Northern Attitude is about how growing up cold has by extension made him cold, personality wise. Like I don’t know how to properly showcase affection because that’s not something you learn when you are just trying to survive the cold. You don’t get to explore the depth of what you mean to each other when the cold is the most pressing enemy and you’ll take any body as long as it’s got heat, doesn’t matter who it’s attached too as long as it can make the house a little warmer.

But both songs are essentially saying the same thing;

I was raised on little light, all my life has taken place in the dark. I don’t know how to love you in the warmth of daylight.

And As someone who grow up on the equator it really got me thinking about how growing up in extreme heat affects the way I showcase my love and how that manifests differently from someone that grew up in the cold.

Cause I don’t like to sleep to close to people because I can feel the heat radiating of them and that’s uncomfortable. I don’t like to sleep in long pants or sweaters because I can feel the warmth seeping into my skin. I don’t like to walk out in the sun cause the heat frustrates me. And now that I have winters I still run the air conditioning all the time because I’m scared of all the memories attached to the heat.

All this to say that as always all roads lead back to Mishanks because whether Mihawk grew up on a cold winter island as his personality suggests or on a burning hot Spanish inspired sun. He has only ever known extreme ways to love.

As compared to someone like Shanks who grew up on the ever changing ocean. Whose never stayed anywhere long enough to be wary of the cold or untrusting of the heat. Who’s never known anything but loving freely untempered by weather. He’s always just been everything.

I really like this line from Hell's Greatest Dad:

"Who needs a busboy now that you've got the chef?"

It's just about how Lucifer is calling Alastor just some busboy that can be easily replaced while he's calling himself the one and only and that it'd be damn near impossible to replace him.

Idk I just really like looking at word choices, especially when it's teeny tiny details :)

When I saw your face

You made me feel like a stranger in a brand new place

And it felt so good to be understood

But there's so much I wished that I could say

So I

I'll be your armor

I love how these few lines of Vaggie's part in Whatever It Takes speaks volumes

From the first two lines: Vaggie only knew Hell as a place filled with sinful creatures that she had to get rid of, and here Charlie is, the actual princess of Hell, treating her with kindness without even knowing who she is or what she's done. Suddenly Hell is a place that can still have good in it - which isn't the place she was led to believe it was by Heaven.

The third line: Vaggie was trying to do the right thing by letting that cannibal child go, but was punished for it and fell. Charlie goes out to help injured sinners after Exterminations but gets no thanks or is treated badly by them despite her helping. Vaggie found someone else in Hell, of all places, who wants to do the right thing despite what the potential consequences might be.

The fourth line: Vaggie wants to tell Charlie that she used to be an exorcist and everything she's done, but knows that would end up hurting her and instead keeps the secret to protect her feelings. (Which parallels with Carmilla's part when she says: I'll keep you safe and keep this secret)

The last two lines: Since Vaggie is keeping this big secret from Charlie, she thinks the best way to make up for it is to literally be her armor. If anyone wants to hurt Charlie, they'll have to get through her first. Even though Charlie is canonically more powerful, she still puts herself between Charlie and any danger without a thought about her own safety.

Side note: Now that Vaggie's secret is out in the open and Charlie's more aware of her power, I can't wait to watch the dynamic switch from Vaggie being Charlie's armor, to Charlie being Vaggie's, and Vaggie learning she doesn't have to always put her life on the line to be worthy of Charlie's love.

Tl;dr: Vaggie saw Hell in a new light upon seeing Charlie and connects with her desire to do good. She feels bad for hiding her past and decides to always put her life on the line for Charlie. Vaggie loves Charlie very much :)

dealer is one of lana's best songs because she sounds absolutely feral (in a good way). most of the time her songs are a composed heartbreak. they're demure and wistful because she's allowed to be, and almost forced to be, demure.

in ultraviolence she talks about the reality of romanticized violence (he hit me and it felt like a kiss). in happiness is a butterfly the only thing she wants is for him to love her back (i just wanna dance with you). both are amazing songs, but both of them feature the narrator either settling for a toxic love or pleading for the bare minimum engagement.

but in dealer, she is actually begging for something beyond just her lover and beyond the bare minimum. she wants effort and she wants to recieve the same energy she is putting into the other person.

okay okay but if you look at what he's done....

to hold me like water / or, Christ, hold me like a knife water is something we need to live, and a knife takes life away. It draws blood. perhaps he's speaking to his lover... hold me like a life source or, christ, hold me like a sacrifice/like i have a purpose.

and the hardest part / is who are / it's who we are personally, i see this as our dark or unhealthy parts. drawing on the line is just carving through the dark, you could see this as our traumas. they're often ugly and hidden, but they are still who we are. thus, these traumas will show their face in certain situations, like the relationship being sung about.

You only feel it when it's lost / getting through still has its cost / quietly, it slips through your fingers, love / falling from you drop by drop now this part oh my goodness... you only feel it when its lost, he could be speaking on how love is felt most in it's absence. this line however also very cleverly ties back to the water/knife reference... you don't feel the water or blood your body needs until it's gone. until you're dehydrated or bleeding out. then quietly, it slips through your fingers, love / falling from you drop by drop DUDE this ending omg. love can slip through your fingers, you don't notice a leak until you've lost water. hence, the dripping. but we don't know... is it water dripping? or was the knife used, and blood is falling drop by drop.

Seriously. what.

listening to 'who we are' for the first time was a religious experience.

to hold me like water or, Christ, hold me like a knife

we're born at night so much of our lives is just carving through the dark to get so far and the hardest part is who are it's who we are

you only feel it when it's lost getting through still has its cost quietly, it slips through your fingers, love falling from you drop by drop

like dude. that's going to take 10-15 business days to process

To me, cotton is a song to anyone who has or have had to give part of themself up.

TW for discussion of feelings of helplessness and reference to suicide

"This song is for the rats

Who hurled themselves in to the ocean

When they saw that the explosives in the cargo hold

Were just about to blow"

These lines give me that sense of sorrow when you hear someone took their own life. Someone who saw what was coming for them and got out some way or another.

"This song is for the soil

That's toxic clear down to the bedrock

Where no thing of consequence can grow

Drop your seeds there

Let them go"

To me is throwing all your effort into so much only for it to never work out. There were so many nights I felt like all my effort was being wasted and that I wasn't going to build anything from it, outside of the suffering I was putting myself through by trying so hard.

"This song is for the people

Who tell their families that they're sorry

For things they can't and won't feel sorry for"

The line I have to most to say about. The horrible feeling that you've been made to think you've wronged somebody who you thought protected you. The nights I spent trying to talk down my fathers anger when he found me living my life happily. The people i've known who had to beg to be let back into their own home after their family barrated them for being queer and forcing them into a church. Living a second life that you can't bring home for risk of losing it all. Always feeling like you're one wrong move from losing a screaming match about how everything you've done and believe in are wrong and demented, never feeling safe in your home.

The album was written about the time John spent as a heroin addict, and you can definitely feel that in his lyrics. But, as per usual, I find his style is akin to experiences me and many others have gone through