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Assemblage 23 – Damaged

Posted by isecore on 16th June 2009

This song is on never-ending repeat here right now. It’s my anthem. My motivation.

I am merely the product
Of the life that I’ve lived
An amalgam of sorrows
And the wisdom they give
But the weight has grown heavy
And its dragging me down
It’s so hard not to sink now
But I don’t want to drown

I’m damaged
But somehow I’ve managed
This far
But I don’t know if I can find my way back home
I’m damaged
But somehow I’ve managed
For now
But I don’t think I can face this on my own

There is beauty in hardship
There are poems in grief
There are trials we must go through
Though they may shake our beliefs

But I don’t know how I got here
Lost in the cynical dusk
Set adrift in the worry
That I’ve no one to trust

If to suffer is holy
I’ll take my share of the pain
I can swim through this sadness
If there’s something to gain

I can reach for the surface
And try to pull myself free
But the last thing I want is
To drag you down here with me

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Pirate Marching Tune

Posted by isecore on 28th May 2009

More brainfarts from me today, but if the swedish Pirate Party needs some kind of music to triumphantly march around to after we completely kick ass in the upcoming election, I strongly suggest we should use VNV Nations instrumental “Weltfunk“.

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The Meaning Behind “Poisonous Friend”

Posted by isecore on 4th March 2009

I gushed a bit about Seabound in an earlier posting, especially about their song “Poisonous Friend”. You might want to read that post again since what I’m going to write now reference the lyrics from that song. Or you can Google it, see if I care.

Anyway. For the last few days I’ve been casually trying to figure out what that song really is about. Just like Mr Pink deducing that Madonnas “Like A Virgin” is really about well-endowed members of the male species I have now figured out the true meaning of this song.

It’s about a man who has multiple personalities. Or in this case, dual personalities. He shares his head with the personality of a psychotic serial-killing woman. Mostly the main character is in control, but occasionally he loses control and the other personality takes over, perpetrating horrible crimes while he watches, unable to do anything.

This is evidenced in several lines, and once I realized this the rest was obvious.

You frighten me
You spy on me
You’re scaring me
You care for me

He’s scared of this other personality since it’s so violent. The other personality also protects him, knowing that they can only co-exist in the same body, thus she tries (unsuccessfully as it would seem) to shield him from the knowledge of her.

She’s living in the house

Of course, since they share the same body they also share the same house.

She knows my body inside out

Again, since it’s a body shared by two personalities she knows his body inside out and is familiar with all the quirks.

I don’t recall when this affair began
She was simply there

I would guess that maybe he developed this other personality due to some traumatic event in his life? Who knows. One day she simply appeared.

Sometimes I watch her kill
Cold eyes and no restraint
And I wonder how it feels
To annihilate a friend

When he loses control and she takes over he can still see through the eyes and watch her do her deeds. He sees the acts she performs, but don’t understand the emotion that drives it.

You frighten me
It’s getting harder to conceal
You spy on me
All my secrets are revealed

Since the two personalities are aware of each other it would seem that aspects of their existence bleed over onto each other, and they can watch each other “inside” the shared brain. So far he might have managed to keep his thoughts private, but it would seem she’s figuring out ways around it.

So, what do you think? Am I correct in deducing this or am I completely wrong here?

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Poisonous Friend

Posted by isecore on 10th February 2009

If you’re into music such as VNV Nation, Apoptygma Berzerk, Assemblage 23 or Funker Vogt then I recommend you check out Seabound. They’ve got a song called “Poisonous Friend” which I think is a deeply lovable song. It’s danceable futurepop of the best kind, and the lyrics are disturbing in an odd kind of way. Lovely.

You frighten me
You spy on me
You’re scaring me
You care for me

I have a poisonous friend
She’s living in the house
She likes to move on bare skin
She knows my body inside out

I don’t recall when this affair began
She was simply there
Now I am shaken by the fear she could assault me
But I must not show it, not to her

Sometimes I watch her kill
Cold eyes and no restraint
And I wonder how it feels
To annihilate a friend

You frighten me
It’s getting harder to conceal
You spy on me
All my secrets are revealed

You’re scaring me
A play on words for us to see
You care for me
I find this harder to believe

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