#song dywtylm

[melit0n]

"Let the tides carry you back to me." has always been among one of my favourite lines in Telomeres, and so, having listened to it again recently, a little idea popped into my head. Let me explain:

While ocean tides/currents is a very common metaphor, there's an underlying meaning to it. The ocean is a beautiful, but somewhat cruel place: tides can leave you stranded on a sandbank, or sweap you away before you even know it.

To put it in short, no object or creature that goes into the ocean comes out the same. For the tides to carry something back to you, something you've lost, it will be and always will be changed: eroded.

The cliffside will fall, the cave will crumble, etc etc.

With this in mind, we're yet again greeted with another example of Vessel asking for something he can't truly have. The person he wants will not be the same as they were before; they "collapse" into him, breaking apart, but still, to him, it's "the start of something."

His memory is warped, they are warped, and it'll stay that way.

However, what I would like to add is that, in DYWTYLM, it's theorised that instead of Vessel speaking to a second person, he's instead talking to himself.

Of course, this makes the song itself much more emotional (to me). Finding love for yourself is one of the hardest things you can do, but it has to be done to find love in others.

With that idea (stay with me here), the lyrics "Do you roll with the waves? Or do you duck into deep blue safety?" match up (generally) with Telomeres, which is mostly interpretated as being towards someone else.

So, what if some lines in Telemores are directed to himself as well?

Keep in mind, the tides don't just erode and carry objects (sediment), they also reflect. The Atlantic is one big mirror, and Vessel is staring into it's "deep blue safety" wondering what, or, rather, who, he was before he was Vessel.

Overall, the album name, "This Place Will Become Your Tomb", either being directed at Vessel or Vessel to Sleep (and being a Halo quote lmao), is more metaphorical than literal.

Who he was before Vessel sits in that coffin, not his physical body.

[sleepanonymous]

Do you roll with the waves? Or do you duck into deep blue safety? Is it always the same? Do you wish that you loved me?

[foundationsofdecay]

In this st fan bubble we appreciate and uplift the underrated tracks

[vessel-token]

fuck it im convinced that no sleep token fan listens to their songs and just feels things “normally”, tell me what lyric(s) ruins you the most.

i’ll go first with these two;

DYWTYLM -

Do you wish that you loved me?

And my reflection just won't smile back at me like I know it should

And I would turn into a stranger in an instant if I could

And there is something eating me alive, I don't know what it is

Maybe not that you conceal your feelings, they just don't exist

Dark Signs -

And I hate who I have become (I might break and bend to my basic need to be loved and close to somebody)

Every time I wake up (I might break and bend to my basic need to be loved and close to somebody)

And if you saw the marks on my dashboard

The new scars that I didn't ask for

Would you call, asking for answers?

Tear my arms off

[aquareegia]

"And my reflection just won't smile back at me like I know it should

And I would turn into a stranger in an instant if I could

And there is something eating me alive, I don't know what it is"

[casvessel]

[darth-maya]

The song of the day is

Sleep Token - DYWTYLM

I feel like this song gets a lot of flak for not being your more usual sleep token song. Theirs no guitar chugging, no beat switch ups or genres being mashed together. Just a sad little rnb bop and that's exactly why I love it.

Once I realized the entirety of this song is them talking to themselves, it made it hit very close to home and makes the song especially sad.

Now, before I say this next part, I want to start with I am not trying to insinuate anything about the vocalist Vessel and what their gender may or may not be.

That being said

I don't even have to try to make this song a trans allegory, it's right there. It as if they took my feelings from a few years back and just slapped them on the page.

[moonchild-in-blue]

So, fun fact - when I first got into Sleep Token, back in june, I had no one to talk to them about, so I just did a track by track review of TMBTE on a journal (this was just before I joined the Tumblr fandom).

Obviously I eventually made friends here to yell about them, but I just kept making the track by track reviews as I went through their entire discography.

It's funny to look back at them - TMBTE reviews are 3 or 4 sentences of me going "oh I love the jazz influences here ; Vessel who hurt you?? ; this line is raw af", and as I got to know the band, the latest are entire paragraphs of " ii the MAN you ARE OMG?? Go offff king ; Vessel honey that was excused, stop moaning in my ears; LEITMOTIFS AAAA".

Also funny to see which songs I liked the most on the first listen, and which ones are my favourite now hehehe.

[sleepanonymous]

[todaysemotionalsupportsong]

DYWTYLM is a song to blast while you lay face down on the carpet. No I will not explain any further

[teacup-tyrant]

I discovered Sleep Token recently and half of these songs are going on my Six of Crows playlist.

[midnight-surgery]

sleep token really do NOT miss this album has been ALL bangers so far, so so musically interesting and listenable and im obsessed. cmon besties dont be shy just drop the rest of the album now 👀

[ashole-x]

The fact that Vessel is talking to himself with the “please smile back at me” hits me like a ton of bricks and is so personal to me.

[foundationsofdecay]

I see your "DYWTYLM is about someone not being in love w you bc they either can't or just aren't and you're eepy angsting about it" and raise you z randal stroope's I Am Not Yours which high school me always insisted was "I wish I was in love with you the way that you are with me but I'm not/can't be and I'm a capella angsting about it"

[justyouraverage-god]

Can we ever release?

Is it better to just not feel?

Can we hit delete?

Do you wish that you loved me?