#st lyrics

[mermaidinthecity]

We're plugging in the power. Cranking up the sound. It's coming your direction. It's heading to your town. We're kicking up dust. Blowing off steam. Let's get nuts. Now everybody scream. We're gonna rock this country. We're gonna rock this country. Every brown-eyed boy, every blue-eyed girl. Got gotta really go psycho, give it a whirl. We're gonna rock this country. Right outta this world. Ah ooh, na na na na na na na na. Ah ooh, na na na na na na na na. Ah ooh, na na na na na na na na. Get ready, we're coming.

Rock This Country by Shania Twain

[leeeeeeef]

tangled up in lust and exotic needs

[melit0n]

One of the lines that caught my eye in Emergence was "So tell me what you meant by 'living past your half life'?" In chemistry, a "half life" is the time it takes for a substance to decay to half of its original mass.

Further, half lives are also prominent in physics, specifically, nuclear physics. It has the same definition—amount of time taken for a nuclei to half itself—but is, as its name suggests, focused on how much useful energy is produced via the decomposition.

This also links in with the later lyrics of "space dust for your fuel rods." Fuel rods are used in the control of a nuclear decay reaction within a nuclear power plant. This could be interpreted as either Vessel's lack of autonomy, or Sleep losing dominion.

If it's anything to note, "space dust" can also be radioactive.

So, with this all in mind, living past a half life is, in its basics, working towards rot. Existing as a dead man walking and overtly aware that you are.

To me, this could be in reference to Sleep. It's been emphasised that, while Sleep is one of the oldest Gods, He is a forgotten one; kept alive by rituals and those who are beckoned by song to follow Him. Aka, kept alive and powerful by Vessel.

Sleep has long since lived past His so called "half life," and, in toe, He is, therefore "well versed in the afterlife."

While I don't think it works as well, mainly because I consider the majority of this song to be Vessel having a go at Sleep, instead of vice versa, this could be applied to Vessel as a mouthpiece, too, posing the question of; how long until your humanity disapears? How long does it take until you pass your half life, and begin to speak and see only that which bloodless and broken creatures do?

How long until you aren't even you anymore?

And, when that change happens, which it will, eventually, will you emerge and become "someone new," or stay as you were?

[heartorbit]

i'm sending this endless melody to a nameless you

[deadgirlhawkins]

I'm a dead girl walking, for a good time call...

hey, will you hit me where it hurts?

I won't feel anything otherwise

[howlsnteeth]

YOUR REFLECTION, YOUR BITTER DECEPTION SETTING YOU FREE

[cephcel]

my baby, here on earth .. .

showed me what my heart was worth

[bailsebub]

You know the behavior, canines of the savior

New music means I’m back at it again with the Sleep Token lyric drawings! This series keeps encouraging me to draw stuff I’m not used to, which has been a lot of fun. Plus it keeps my calligraphy nibs from getting rusty lol

See the rest of the series here

[buckleysibz]

if it's all in my head tell me now tell me i've got it wrong somehow i know my love should be celebrated but you tolerate it

[thedreamhall]

contrast

[mermaidinthecity]

Don't be stupid. My baby. I'm mad about you. I'm mad about you. I can't live without you. Can't live without you. I'm crazy about you. I'm crazy about you. So don't be stupid, you know I love you. Don't be stupid, you know I love you. Don't be ridiculous, you know I need you. Don't be absurd, you know I want you. Don't be impossible, impossible. Oh, no, no, no. Don't be, don't be, don't be, baby. Don't be ridiculous. No, no. Oh, don't be stupid.

Don’t Be Stupid (You Know I Love You) by Shania Twain

[diddlesnap]

A Saint Bernard sits at the top of the driveway

[melit0n]

Okay, so Euclid, right?? It's 5 minutes and 13 seconds long, but Vessel only starts singing at the 13 second mark. First lyric? "Just run it back, give me five whole minutes".

We, as the listener, give him five whole minutes to say what he's gotta say. Further, the song ends on the exact same piano chord that it begins with; the song, in of itself, is a loop. Anytime you play Euclid on loop, you are running it back and giving him five whole minutes.

[akindplace]

And I'm learning so I'm leaving

And even though I'm grieving

I'm trying to find a meaning

Let loss reveal it

St Jude - Florence and the machine

[deadnamed]

I'm Your Man, Mitski | i love you, it looks like rain, June Gehringer | Bad Dog Love (wip), lev st. Valentine

[gayofthefae]

LESLEY GORE ON ST LESLEY GORE ON ST LESLEY GORE ON ST (she also wrote it's my party)

No one here knows what I’d do to have “You Don’t Own Me” (1963) show up in ST5 re: Henry and HNL

LIKE COME ONNNNN