[Refrain]
This song's to ear as candiru’s to cock
The bland display elicits beige response
Regurgitated talking points for a like-minded audience
[Verse 1]
Adopt a posture, apply aggression
The Moon still came out tonight
Candles all go out, breath abandons lung
Still, you haven't changed anything
The tired lines of us with ashen foreheads
[Refrain]
Some cosmic satirist with space as page and stars as ink
Kills off your character
Still the inspiration drips
[Verse 2]
Sit in a circle, naked and eager
We all take turns pretending we say anything important
Learn to tell the difference between white noise and applause
A universal eye roll and how we all tire of
My masquerading as an "artist"
It will rise and fall regardless
[Chorus]
There is no message of the profound
A jargon-cum-monument built with self in mind
Mosaic of erections rise in perfect sync with jurisdiction
Or lack thereof the influence
A serpent swallowing its tail , an endless loop
There is no old, young, in between
Just flesh in constant state of change
There is no reason for this song
The impetus is blossomed on instinct’s pink, electric soil
History is luxury
A serpent swallowing its tail , an endless loop
[Instrumental Break]
[Outro]
After "blank" years of eyes shut, stumbling
There's one thing I've come to understand
How bought and sold I am with bland, adult geometry
The self strung flaccid between two states suspended
Each limb tied onto a different horse
That which once showed me its bed, now shows me the door
Foul jest in passing, so stop me if you've heard this one
"My thoughts on faux expression
For lack of a more eloquent term
The capital speaks now in faked orgasm smirk"
Put simply, Kent is saying that he has nothing profound or interesting to say, and writing music has become a self aggrandizing, masturbatory process with no real positive effect on anything
The speaker realizes how transactional the relationships in their life are.
A circle has no end, so it seems that you’re not actually meant to applaud at all.
According to natives of the Amazon River Basin, the candiru (a fish), attacks people by swimming up their penises while they urinate. This song is meant to burrow painfully into the ears of its listeners.
This verse seems to be describing the plight of an artist trying to fit into any established “scene”. At a certain point, it all starts to feel like a big narcissistic circle jerk, actively doing nothing to improve anything. Kent also further elaborates on how meaningless he thinks the art he’s making is in a greater context, “the sun cares not for art, it will rise and fall regardless."
Referring to something that has been done or repeated so often that it has become annoying or tiresome.
This line references Uroboros, a circular symbol that depicts a snake or dragon devouring its own tail and that is used especially to represent the eternal cycle of destruction and rebirth. (Merriam Webster dictionary) .
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Alex Kent is taking on impostor syndrome here, describing how, despite all of the art he’s made, nothing has really changed and he doesn’t feel any sense of accomplishment from it, but rather a sense of inadequacy and insincerity.
Likely a reference to Robert François Damiens' execution, which was described in detail by Michel Foucault in Discipline and Punish.