Nostalgia for Innocence
Little Women (2019), dir. Greta Gerwig | “Landscape,” Louise Glück | “i wish it was raining,” spotify cover | textpost, tumblr user @/mclennonyaoi | You Don��t Have to Like Me, Alina Nugent | Brooklyn Nine Nine (2014-2021), dir. Gates | “Ribs,” Lorde | VSCO post, user @/aprilinparis1947 | “Beautiful Fall in Ior Park, Bucharest,” instagram user @/andreigherasim | “Burn, Burn, Burn,” Zach Bryan |
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I love Jaws with all my heart, so, here I come with a little analysis again!
First off, the title. Bite my neck, drink my blood and make us one type vibes. Sleep Token in general has a massive thing with biting, teeth, consumption and chewing (there's a massive post on Reddit with all the times it's been mentioned, which, if I remember correctly, is around twenty), across their discography, and Jaws is the immediate beginning of this trend.
Jaws are a sign of power, destruction, love, sadness and joy. We bear our teeth when we're happy, when we're angry and when we eat. It is the ultimate metaphor for so many emotions. You don't know someone until you've seen them destroy something, to shout and scream and chew and bite, hence the line "show me those pretty white jaws; show me where the delicate stops". He's asking to see the real them, whoever they are.
All the lyrics have this underlying religious tone, as most Sleep Token songs do, but here it's more directly addressed. "Stained glass" is almost always associated with Churches and Cathedrals, and presents 'them' as something Holy; something that can and will be worshipped. However, the line "Whites of your eyes burn" completely removes all the ideas of safety that surrounds a religious figure. Of course, when it comes to divinity and sin, fire is a massive symbol we have to talk about. To burn is to suffer, but to be cleansed. It's this double entendre that presents this figure of safety as one who is also a threat. A predator.
Then, of course, we have "And I'm not here to be the saviour you long for". Unfortunately, Vessel seems to be in this constant battle of 'I can fix them; we can fix eachother. We're gonna be fine!' and 'I fucking hate you; leave me be or I'll have at you', which is what's seen in this one. Neither of them are the saviour the other one yearns for, yet Vessel still tries. He asks, and then repeats over and over, creating the tone of begging and pleading, for them to show him what they've lost and, in turn, show him love.
He's asking them for the two things they can never genuinely give, but he never stops trying because God forbid the things he'd do if he was alone again.
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Sipping on your looks but you drink me in
Pass over the flattery again
Its hanging heavy on my chest
And its better left invisible for now
Confessions are bouncing round my head
So I add them to the archive of things we've never said
I lock them up with all the rest
But its better left invisible for now
If the rope we walk starts wobbling
The river tide feels like its coming in
I lock them up with all the rest
It's hanging heavy on my chest
Though its tempting to confess
It's better left invisible for now
Temperature rising
Fever is high
I can't see no future
I can't see no sky
My eyes are wide open
And so is my head
I'm praying to someone
Get me out of this hell
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🎃Repostober Day 1 -
"I don't want to wait anymore I'm tired of looking for answers Take me some place where there's Music and there's laughter"
Found this (2020) drawing of Siv a while ago and I still very much like it🤍
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She’s not giving selfie but she is giving checking off bucket list items one by one 😍❤️
Fave Speak Now lyric:
Wasn't it easier in your firefly-catchin' days?
And everything out of reach someone bigger brought down to you
Wasn't it beautiful runnin' wild 'til you fell asleep before the monsters caught up to you?
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