SID - Shelter
I knew I'd get cut off I've always made the rational calls
It's not like Flattery Would've gotten me anywhere after all1
You said I was out of line And totally let me down You've got to be high
Sure I may Get to sing some days but There are others When I cry2
Sensing blood Works of fiction come swarming In a sign of weakness3
The freedom you gave me, can you perceive it?4
The pain you gave me, can you conceive it?
Keeping it inside Doesn't help My suffering might as well Have vapourised like steam
And I could publicise it But There'd be no progress to be seen5
Under the cover of pressure-free education6 Their biting milk teeth are Sending a signal about our times
This darkness I keep taking, can I ride it out?
The me who keeps taking it, should I wipe him out?
"Since it's impossible to eliminate Let's just alleviate" A circular debate7
The freedom you gave me, can you perceive it?
The pain you gave me, can you conceive it?
This darkness I keep taking, can I ride it out?
The me who keeps taking it, I wiped him out.
I played more loosely with this one to try and retain some of its original tongue-twistery fun, but all I really managed was to make it rhyme. I can promise it's still accurate, though. o9
This is a song about bullying in school. Going by the speech style, the narrator is a teenage boy who refused to go along with the bullies, only to have his friend turn on him and made the next victim.
1 Despite knowing it'd single him out, the narrator didn't want to praise / approve of the bullying because, as he put it, he's the rational type, plus no amount of boot-licking would save him if he ever got targetted anyway. He was consequently cut off by his schoolmates.
2 The situation worsened when a friend (probably somebody he was particularly close to or trusted) betrayed him by claiming his behaviour was cocky and stood out too much, even though they knew he had his bad days like everyone else too.
3 Works of fiction = rumours, ill-willed gossip. It's a sign of weakness because they're each protecting themselves from being targetted by ganging up on him.
4 He's been freed in the sense that he doesn't have to play along with the bullying anymore, or do anything he doesn't want to just to avoid standing out since... it's already too late for that... but it's probably not a concept his friend can grasp.
5 Mao's use of 'publicise' is deliberate-this is a long-running issue that's made the news time and again, but with no real results.
6 See: yutori education. [1] [2]
7 Just a line reflecting some adults' stance on bullying in school.
It's not like Flattery Would've gotten me anywhere after all1
You said I was out of line And totally let me down You've got to be high
Sure I may Get to sing some days but There are others When I cry2
Sensing blood Works of fiction come swarming In a sign of weakness3
The freedom you gave me, can you perceive it?4
The pain you gave me, can you conceive it?
Keeping it inside Doesn't help My suffering might as well Have vapourised like steam
And I could publicise it But There'd be no progress to be seen5
Under the cover of pressure-free education6 Their biting milk teeth are Sending a signal about our times
This darkness I keep taking, can I ride it out?
The me who keeps taking it, should I wipe him out?
"Since it's impossible to eliminate Let's just alleviate" A circular debate7
The freedom you gave me, can you perceive it?
The pain you gave me, can you conceive it?
This darkness I keep taking, can I ride it out?
The me who keeps taking it, I wiped him out.
I played more loosely with this one to try and retain some of its original tongue-twistery fun, but all I really managed was to make it rhyme. I can promise it's still accurate, though. o9
This is a song about bullying in school. Going by the speech style, the narrator is a teenage boy who refused to go along with the bullies, only to have his friend turn on him and made the next victim.
1 Despite knowing it'd single him out, the narrator didn't want to praise / approve of the bullying because, as he put it, he's the rational type, plus no amount of boot-licking would save him if he ever got targetted anyway. He was consequently cut off by his schoolmates.
2 The situation worsened when a friend (probably somebody he was particularly close to or trusted) betrayed him by claiming his behaviour was cocky and stood out too much, even though they knew he had his bad days like everyone else too.
3 Works of fiction = rumours, ill-willed gossip. It's a sign of weakness because they're each protecting themselves from being targetted by ganging up on him.
4 He's been freed in the sense that he doesn't have to play along with the bullying anymore, or do anything he doesn't want to just to avoid standing out since... it's already too late for that... but it's probably not a concept his friend can grasp.
5 Mao's use of 'publicise' is deliberate-this is a long-running issue that's made the news time and again, but with no real results.
6 See: yutori education. [1] [2]
7 Just a line reflecting some adults' stance on bullying in school.