#song nazareth

[melit0n]

The vocal runs he does in Nazareth drive me INSANE

Credits: Owen Troy -> yt

[sleepanonymous]

Hi hello yes I also thought I was done but my brain said no.

So, who was going to tell me what an absolute menace Vessel was on stage back in 2018? Why did nobody show me what a chaotic goblinman he used to be?

Vessel, you cannot do this to me. The white waistband. The water bottle drop. The strangulation of OG IV. The SPIT. ONTO. OG IV. … Sir. What is happening to you on stage? What demons are you fighting? (Let me help, I want to meet them)

[shatterthefragments]

hi! 💜 i'm intrigued by the Nazareth trans allegory comic [sleep token] from your wip list, if you'd like to share some thoughts about it. have a lovely day! 🌻

🫂💖💖💖💖💖 Ok ok SO!!! Nazareth Trans Allegory comic!!!

RAMBLING ON AHEAD!!!!!!!!

There’s. This is what was in my notes app so far so this is the entirety of the wip basically bc I hadn’t externalized this until I actually started to write an answer for this!!! 🫂

(Brought to you by me listening to Nazareth on repeat last week and a bit into this one so far it is number 1 on my on repeat atm and questioning if I really *have to* put off/forget about gender affirming care Despite The Horrors (bloodwork and surgery) after all I was able to get tattooed and it didn’t even put me in a dissociative tailspin.. if I get to a place I can Get Out of this house (with all my stuff))

^this is presumably from May when I started writing this out. But as of September 11 2024, Nazareth is still number 5 on my on repeat playlist as I mull this over in my head like a rotisserie chicken.

Um. I guess cw for transphobia

And also brought to you by me starting to type:

This is probably nothing but “let’s fuck her up” referring to the girl that

(They all think you are)

And then Promptly abandoning it to go NAZARETH TRANS ALLEGORY.

While I do question my ability to pull it off I am throwing myself off the cliff of “I must make perfect art” and diving into the waters of “if it brings joy or catharsis it is ALL PERFECT” and it’s better to try and to learn as I go than to worry and not create anything at all.

This would be. A short comic. Not like. Not like a book comic or anything.

Will absolutely feature calligraphy bc I’m a sucker and love it 😘(also I’m out of practice and have to reference the alphabets way more than I used to so I want to practice also anything that uses that much black gets assigned calligraphy in my head 😘)

Also unsure of how closely it follows what I’m rambling about here and what I’m actually capable of depicting but HERE WE GO (not sure how coherent I just type things)

But primarily it follows the song and its lyrics and the emotions (?)

TWINKLIEST BITS ARE BEING EQUATED TO FINDING YOUR CHOSEN FAMILY OKAY!!!!!!

And ALSO the jubilation in BECOMING in changing your life to be how you are and finding the joy in living again

So The Wrath. In this. I haven’t fully decided how many interpretations I’m giving it. But it is definitely representing transphobia, particularly from birth families and the people we’re close with.

I’ll see you when the wrath comes.

I’ll see you when you come running to your chosen family (the “I” here) being welcomed in and safe from the wrath touching you.

“Knocking on your bedroom door with money” I mean fuck. Transition related stuff is so expensive 😭 even though I have universal healthcare it’s. Expensive. Even just the binders I have from when I bound on a regular basis were pretty expensive. Makeup to do masculinizing makeup would be expensive (I don’t have or wear makeup (my obsession with dark red lipstick and other fun colours notwithstanding) let alone have the skill currently to do that)

“Building you a kingdom” finally being the king of your own world rather than a subject subjected to so many unspoken rules that just bind you to unhappiness and obligation is what comes to mind at first but honestly I’m not entirely sure what to do for the next line

“Dripping from the open mouth, I’ll show you / what you look like, from the inside” like. I have vague images floating around in my head that I’m not sure how to articulate atm.

Hollow point. You know. Like the syringe used to draw up testosterone from the vial. To a naked body/booty (look. I know that the thigh is just fine as an injection site but I did watch love lies bleeding thanks to @ongreenergrasses so it is in the mind) (yes,, even still…)

Now on one hand. The pronouns are she/her used in the lyrics.

But ALSO could be interpreted as the rest of everyone seeing him/them as her still and refusing to acknowledge their/his identity (undecided on whether anyone else knows in this comic or even how I’d storyboard that)

Also. I won’t be missing you in mirror

They won’t be missing you the pitchfork crowd

So I would be going with the transmasc version bc it’s more related to me and my experiences and how I see things

(Aside from like the one week back in high school where after so long as a boy I was a girl and I was fully like freaking out and wondering how I’d transition before like. It occurred to me. Anyway that didn’t last long and was the quickest gender switch I’ve experienced (I generally say if I am indeed gender fluid then the fluid is a slow moving lava consuming all in its path) and I hovered (and still kinda continue to hover) somewhere in the realm of nonbinary transmasc demiboy or something I’m not thinking too hard about the labels I just want to be comfortable and as happy as possible)

BUT ALSO 👀

Transfem Nazareth

Fuck her up - fuck up the woman you’re expected to be by everyone else.

Hollow point… unfortunately I can’t help but think of the disproportionate rates of violence against trans women and particularly trans women of colour.

[vagueconfusion]

[ancientbygone]

i'll never let you forget the chaos that birthed you

[geopsych]

Standing by the oldest oak in the woods by the park, early June, 2020.

[dozecoin]

nazareth by sleep token is donnie darko coded do u see the vision

[foxgloveinspace]

Something I’ve been thinking about a lot is that a lot of Sleep Token songs are about Vessel, and like I have a list, but I want to drop the concept that I have a thought that sometimes Vessel is the ‘she’ in the songs.

[tedzyrotten]

as terrifying of a lyric “make her eat the tape in the bathroom mirror” is, i think “manifest pain at the core of pleasure” is so slept on despite how haunting it is

[ascensabyss]

vessel is so much stronger than me because I wouldn’t survive a crowd chanting "they won’t be missing you“ at me

[sleepanonymous]

(source) YouTube video + more goblinman Vessel below the cut 😉

This is the only video I could find of this concert, and it is flashy as hell. I almost decided not to add it to the post until I watched around the 0:32 mark when Vessel grabbed his water bottle 😏🖤

[pinkishflowersilverycoin]

Until the End of the World - Chriscariot Comic

Part 1

[bluesey-182]

no song makes me as desperate to want to know what exactly vessel meant by the lyrics than "nazareth" does. sir please explain

[vagueconfusion]

Saw this video and had to gif this part, enjoy?

Original video taken by Owen Troy on youtube

Bonus:

[livegrenade]

i'll see you when the wrath comes around

(x)

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[whatareyoudoingwithamaserati]

good afternoon the sleep token brainrot has truly taken hold of my brain and i am currently sitting outside a lecture theatre frothing at the mouth over this. the autism is spreading. also i Get what you meant about blood sport i think there is crack in that song

HOLLAND!!!!!!! GOOD MORNING!!!!!!! I’m so happy sleep token has grabbed you because they’re such a good band and their lyricism is SO up your alley. Every time I think about the ending of Blood Sport I want to supernova into a million pieces because what the hell. What the fuck. The room below version gets me also. God does this band know how to make a song that cuts through a body.

Dark Signs is going to have me biting things. And you, if you want! I’m so obsessed with the narrative of reaching for someone even though you are not perfect (and might never be right for them) because they make you better. And it is not enough. The desire to be wanted and to be loved above all else…… it does things to me

Turning the autism around on you: I finally got around to listening to your Skott playlist and I remain in awe of her talent. The Burning Incense acoustic was so good that it is just burned in my brain, and Firetrucks on Fire. HOUGH. The irony in the name. The need to save someone even though you cannot do anything about it. I will be listening to this playlist again it is so well crafted