[dud]

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dud wrote:

[dud]

FALLING ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL

we are the good crew
we got the good crew
been runnin' with the good crew
gonna stay late
man i don't mean it
gonna stay up for a minute
[sock ya sock ya gotta black eye]
some say everything
so long now
seems like a long time comin'
stepping off the tube
not falling for it this time
i cannot care
we get off again
this time gonna take it all day

falling asleep at the wheel

i take it for the no good
pissin' alone
dancing with the boob tube
i can have all too
you're closer now
it's gonna be fine

we go out into the dark
takin' takin' something on the take
we're making sure everybody knows
we got the good crew
and we speak up to the good crew
never be the same
never see the [?untotal stay?]

we got the good crew
been runnin with the good crew
gonna stay late
man i don't mean it
gonna stay up for a minute
[sock ya sock ya gotta black eye]
some say everything

no way no how
i just spout about
sayin' to the younger one
you got to get the buggy out
finding ways to wait
don't know we be comin' or goin'
not gonna let this feeling go there

can't be goodbye
goodbye to you
so won't goodbye
goodbye to you
and it's all good wishes
wishes to you
and it's all good fortune
fortunate too

we don't share it all
why [do people] never share it all
we don't share it all
why [can't people] ever share it all

[rohcti]

"Knockin over horseshoes, you're close enough, it's gonna be fine"

[speen]

dud wrote:

pissin' alone
dancing with the boob tube

instant classic

[jetski]

Lol

[speen]

dud i just want you to know that "pissin alone / dancing with the boob toob" has not stopped repeating in my head since i read it. I mentally sing it to the tune of kinda bonkers, where avey says "asking my friend / have you ever felt like"

im sitting here trying to write this massive paper and i cant fucking get those words out of my head lmao

[dud]

LOL yesss

[jfw7]

i hear "pissing along"

[dud]

that's what makes it even funnier, don't think "pissin alone / dancing with the boob tube" is even close to what it actually is, could be pissing along though

[jfw7]

Frumpkin wrote:

from his fb page:

[Sputnik Monroe]

Panda Bears lyrics have all seemed like cryptic alchemical formulas to me. He is consistently taking something lowly like trash, then alluding to something more precious. I've seen it in numerous past songs, but it is also all over this EP. Part of the math for example:

You're an effigy
And a wrapper in a plastic bag
We're all dieties
Washed up in a sewage freebird

Where was I

A flowered shrine
A cussing bum
A crystal shine
In a pool of scum
A dream so real
That your vision's gone

An animal
A mineral
A vegetable
An abacus

Part of the Sophia myth of the gnostics, is that you have to look for her in the dung heap. That the divine is constantly right before your eyes in the unlikeliest places as the trash and waste. This was a huge theme in the ideas of the alchemist, turning shit into gold. Like the scene from holy mountain where the guy turns his own shit into gold. Also the animal, mineral vegetable part is on this old alchemical illustration I came across in a book I have,

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Nod to the folks touches on these ideas as well:

Nod to the folks
Keeping us close
Up to the gods
Evens and odds
Refining ore
Anyone's joke
Wriggling to be
Free from the yoke

Here we have mention of parents (parental conditioning), mention of gods, refining ore (turning shit to gold), and then struggling to break from the the yoke (struggling to break outside of parental conditionings or just wordy conditionings all together or human condition).

Hid from the light
In a garbage can

Another reference to finding divinity within the trash. There are also more references in this song.

Take a chance
And try to
Break away

Another reference of trying to break free in sunset. Also the lyrics to lying in the grass really allude to these ideas. Here are some lyrics I pulled from lying in the grass:

There’s a way through fogs as long as there’s a light to discover (it)

It’s a gut that fears all things unknown
and a link within the brain you know

Not a shame to say the instincts there
but a virtue to deny the bait

Know the cause and move to gauze and deftly
tratar o sangue (clean up the blood)

In the law there’s room to move
as there’s a need to uncover it

As a choker sucks, let’s sift through the muck and lift this dingy veil
same old tale

Get mixed in this crippling fixture
Try and approach the hidden mixtures
Get mixed in this crippling fixture
Try and approach the hidden picture it

For a misplaced stash, let’s search through the trash and right this ignorant lurch
wicked urge

Like a twisted stick, let’s dig through the sick and find a level space

Lots of ideas about moving past the minds instincts or conditionings, also finding light through fog and illusion/ hidden picture/ hidden mixtures, digging through the trash/ sick. These are all blatant alchemical ideas. Also I remember Noah talking about PBMGR and the grim reaper as the concept of an agent of change, transmutation and not literal death. The whole concept of that album plays out like that, going through life struggles, going through a mental break down, and being reborn into clarity through tragedy. Also take pills can be seen through this same lens. It's a song about him realizing he doesn't need to be on anti-depressants anymore, that he is stronger without them, he's stronger if he faces his mind, and learns how to transmute the pain himself.

I guess what I'm trying to say with all of this, is that his lyrics are often very cryptic and can often seem random or nonsensical, or allude to so many different things. However, with some understanding of alchemical or mythological symbolism, the lyrics start to make sense and take on meaning. I remember also reading that Noah majored in religion, which leads me to believe that, though he may not be dogmatically religious, the symbolism of myth and religion mean something very personal to him. Anyway, would love to discuss this more!

[Enn Eye]

Brilliant post Sputnik, I reckon you're spot on. Panda mentioned the themes are sprinkled with musings he's touched on in the past, definitely change and mutation (alchemy?)
I read somewhere NTTFolks could be referring to bacteria, lowly things on? "Strapped to carcass or an empty vase"...etc

[preacherben]

Yeah that’s a terrific interpretation, he’s getting mystical as fuck

[dud]

great post sputnik, also think you are spot on, at least at its most basic level about juxtaposing lowly things with precious things, and in that sense the "we're all deities washed up in a sewage lea.k" is the thesis of all of a day with the homies. great stuff