#the song with five names

[fountain-of-oceanus]

“dad, why is my sister named Marsha?”

“because your mother’s favorite song is Marsha, Thankk You for the Dialectics, but I Need You to Leave.”

“oh, thanks dad!”

“no problem, son with five names.”

#dom’s rambling #will wood #will wood and the tapeworms #wwattw #wee woo #the song with five names #marsha thankk you for the dialectics #this was funnier in my head

[butterscotch-goat]

#it was funnier in my head #will wood #william woodliam #the song with five names #wwattw #wwatt

[dreadful-windandrain]

thinking about how the song with five names and hand me my shovel, i'm going in! are intrinsically connected.

how the former is a warning call to the singer of the latter. you can break a shovel if you break new ground, it cries. quit while you're ahead. stop before you learn something about yourself you regret. and the other says, heaven sent me. i'm untouchable. this is all i am meant to do now. hand me my shovel.

how the latter is a desperate plea to the singer of the former. this is not enough, it cries. i need to hit the bottom. come with me. don't be afraid of altering your worldview, even if it's uncomfortable. and the other says, gimme that old time religion. i will never change. i would rather accept a belief i know to be implausible than recognize who i really am. it's good enough for me.

thinking about how both of the singers are wrong. neither of their views are beneficial to their lives, but they stay stubborn. one uses introspection as a form of self-harm and the other ignores introspection as a form of self-harm. self-sabotage versus ignorance. in the end, both of their minds will snap. both will cave under the weight they've put onto their own backs. it's just a matter of how they get there.

#i know ww has said his songs and/or albums don't have narratives but fuck. man........... #will wood and the tapeworms #will wood #wwattw #self ish #the song with five names #hand me my shovel im going in #wii woo #william woodiam #wee woo #ren's rambles

[kkshowtunes]

In Case I Die as rats

#will wood #in case I die #icid #icimi #ww #wwatt #that’s enough let’s get you home #falling up #misanthropologist #love me normally #tomcat disposables #skeleton appreciation day #the first step #I/me/myself #laplace's angel #jimmy mushrooms #half decade hangover #the song with five names #vampire reference in a minor key #becoming the lastnames #against the kitchen floor #cicada days #the main character #…and if I did you deserved it #doodlebug does art #some of these would make sick tats #tw rat #banger #super banger

[arsont-t]

I mean comfort character, sorry Steinman. Also will wood songs ? Very Alex vibes

#bioshock #bioshock 2 #rapture #gilbert alexander #alex the great #comfort character #the song with five names #blackboxwarrior

[soggytapeworm]

Round 1 - SELF-iSH - 3rd battle

im gonna ask y’all a question soon😼😼

The Song With 5 Names

“You could never know”

Hand Me My Shovel, I’m Going In!

“Gotta get to the bottom of this!”

#will wood music #will wood and the tapeworms #will wood #william woodiam #self ish #SELF-iSH #tsw5n #the song with five names #shovel #hand me my shovel im going in #*hands you your shovel*

[wolfart-09]

“They’re not talking.” Crowley’s side

You all are getting Will Wood this time.

#my art #my style #digital art #2d art #2d artist #digital 2d #good omens #good omens fanart #crowley #ineffable husbands #will wood #will wood and the tapeworms #the song with five names #they’re not talking

[will-wood-confessions]

I wish I was joking but my parents made me play the ukulele for my grandparents for their anniversary in a very public restaurant (we literally had to ask the music guy to stop and I wanted to cry) but because I’m wildly mentally I’ll I only knew Will Wood songs on it so I had to play the shittiest most awkward cover of The Song With Five Names for my poor, poor grandparents. I forgot the lyrics halfway through. It was horrendous.

#featuring another one of my dumbass doodles since I couldn’t find an image to go with this and went ‘fuck it I’ll make it myself’ once again #also that sounds like one of my nightmare scenarios I am so fucking sorry anon #will wood confessions #shitty art edition #ww confessions 130 - 139 #will wood #will wood and the tapeworms #wwatt #wwattw #wii woo #the song with five names #the song with five names a.k.a. soapbox tao a.k.a. checkmate atheists! a.k.a. neospace government (a.k.a. you can never know) #self-ish

[literallyraventeamleader]

What if the real The Song with Five Names a.k.a. Soapbox Tao a.k.a. Checkmate Atheists! a.k.a. Neospace Government a.k.a. You Can Never Know (Remastered) was the friends we made along the way

#will wood #wee woo #william woodiam #will wood and the tapeworms #the song with five names #soapbox tao #checkmate atheists #neospace government #you can never know #i am going insane #i need a lobotomy #oh my god #someone help

[lyra-idek]

You can break a shovel when you break new ground

You dig dirt up when you dig deep down

You should know better than that by now,

It's not profound to know

that you can never know

YOU CAN NEVER KNOWWWWWWWWWWWW

#will wood #will wood lyrics #the song with five names

[thermodynamic-comedian]

i wanna know if this is common knowledge among will wood fans- some songs definently come in pairs, right?

self- and -ish are obvious, but then there's also tomcat disposables and willard!, which i kind of consider the same story. both songs seem to be from the perspective of someone who feels outcast or different from everyone around them, to a degree where they relate to (or see themselves as) more animal than human. although, tomcat disposables seems to be about trying your best to fit in, but failing to, whereas willard! is more about giving up on trying to fit in, embracing what makes you different, maybe even thinking what makes you different makes you better. the end of willard! also references tomcat disposables directly through instruments, having the tomcat disposables melody at the very end.

then there's also hand me my shovel, i'm going in! and the song with five names, which are the same idea presented from two different points of view. both songs also use digging as a metaphor for introspection, hand me my shovel being explicitly pro-introspection, whereas 5 names seems to be against it. the choruses of both songs have such similar lyrics, yet seem to disagree: "this is not enough, this is not enough to prove it yet! no, i need to hit the bottom." "you could break a shovel when you break new ground; you dig dirt up when you dig deep down. you should know better than that by now, it's not profound to know that you could never know." these are two sides of essencially the same argument: should you try to find out who you are, or not?

dr. sunshine is dead and cotard's solution also seem connected, both by their theme and by the cotard's solution piano melody (and the accompanying lyrics) also being at the end of dr. sunshine. both songs have something to do with death, more specifically someone believing they're dead (this is cotard's delusion, which the first song gets its name from). cotard's solution is very clearly from the perspective of someone who believes that they are dead. it's also heavily implied this person is suicidal, with lyrics like "i wish that i were dead" and "i wanna make my murder look like a suicide", and the backing vocals singing "kill me" towards the end. i think this is related to the person's delusion; the suicidality almost presents itself as body dysphoria in their case, because they truly believe they are dead, so being inside a body that is still very much alive feels wrong (presented through lyrics like "you do the math, who's looking back? that's not me!" and "check in the mirror to see how i look; i look different in different ways.") the protagonist of dr. sunshine is dead seems to have very similar thoughts: "for your self-portraits, sign another name. who should i be then, if i'll never be the same?". dr. sunshine seems to be more about re-inventing yourself, thinking that the person you used to be is dead, and now you must resume a new identity. i'm not sure if this sort of thinking it directly related to cotard's delusion (i'm by no means an expert, i'm just some guy on the internet who really likes analyzing songs), but it does seem directly related to cotard's solution.

songs that might not be directly connected but i still think are worth mentioning include chemical overreaction and skeleton appreciation day. the last verse of chemical overreaction follows the same chord progression as skeleton appreciation day; you can hear the same melody in the background, played by an electric guitar. the themes of the two songs seem seperate, though.

#will wood #ww #wwatt #wwattw #will wood and the tapeworms #self ish #everything is a lot #in case i make it #icimi #will wood icimi #cotard’s solution #hand me my shovel im going in #dr. sunshine is dead #the song with five names #skeleton appreciation day #chemical overreaction #tomcat disposables #willard! #wee woo

[little-bumblebeeee]

Listening to The Song with Five Names for the first time

#will wood #the song with five names #will wood and the tapeworms #Also Eddie munson and his lil face #wee woo #wwattw #I NOTICED THAT THE SUNSHINE IS A GASLIGHG IM HOPING TAHT THIS ONE MIGHT BE MY PAST LIFE

[loaflovesdoodling]

"Why I can't see

that I am the me

that I was born into"

#KEEP THE CHAIN GOING PLEASE ���😩 #will wood #the song with five names #shitpost #honestly discovering this guy's music back in February along with Ado was life saving #Any song that includes screaming automatically comes off as an excuse to screech out all your stress at any given moment #and count it as singing #ok but what the actual fuck was Will thinking to go like: “hm #I wonder what would happen if you mixed tango country and death metal“ #AND IT SOUNDED GOOD TOO LIKE WHAT THE FUCK

[dreadful-windandrain]

so about your boyfriend. he realized that you can break a shovel when you break new ground. yeah he thinks that you dig dirt up when you dig deep down. he should know better than that by now but that's not the point. he says that it's not profound to know that you can never know. sorry

#will wood #will wood and the tapeworms #wee woo #self ish #the song with five names #ren's rambles

[willwood-lyrics]

#will wood #will wood lyrics #will wood and the tapeworms #will wood and the tapeworms lyrics #self-ish #the song with five names

[mogaiundead]

New gendy just dropped

Fivenamessongic

A gender relating to The Song with Five Names, a​.​k​.​a. Soapbox Tao, a​.​k​.​a. Checkmate Atheists! a​.​k​.​a. Neospace Government, a​.​k​.​a. You Can Never Know by Will Wood and the Tapeworms

Coined by: Kage

Requested by: no one

#the song with five names #mogai blog #mogai coining #mogai #xenogender #xenogender coining #xenogender blog #pemogai #neogender blog #neogender #neogender coining #pro endogenic mogai #new gendy just dropped #fivenamessongic