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twig---verginix · 1 year

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Hi <3 Are you excited about your spotify wrapped? Do you have a spare few hours and a deep desire to spend them thinking about song lyrics? Pick the most interesting lyric from each song and make yourself a handy dandy

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that will bring you lasting satisfaction without having to make a uquiz question that you imagine people will be annoyed by. I highly recommend it. I've been doing this for hours.

And I’ll forget about it when I wake up late and stupid, I tried to tell the Uber driver till he tried to hit it/I tried to tell myself because I've come this far along, carrying my zombie arm to the 15th-grade prom

We understand we've been given a new covenant, a real sharp one/and we spend our days and nights gaining new appreciation of its finer points

This was how Cyrus got sent to the school where they told him he'd never be famous/and this was why Jeff, in the letters he'd write to his friend, helped develop a plan to get even

I have two big hands and a heart pumping blood/and a 1967 Colt 45 with a busted safety catch

Break the lock on my own garden gate when I get home after dark/Sit looking up at the stars outside, like teeth in the mouth of a shark

We each have our guns drawn, but neither of us wants to shoot first/We could stay like this forever. We could stay like this and never leave

And you think that it gets better, just you wait until next week/You're keeping a dark secret (but you're talking in your sleep)

And I think of you when I put on your old clothes/We don't talk all that often, who ever does/But I'll visit you soon and sing you a tune/About finding a family somewhere in the ruin

Raskolnikov felt sick, but he couldn't say why/when he saw his face reflected in his victim's twinkling eye

When I tell you that I love you, don't test my love/Accept my love, don't test my love/'Cause maybe I don't love you all that much

She hopes I'm cursed forever to sleep on a twin size mattress/In somebody's attic or basement my whole life

You stayed up to see the sun/I couldn't wait that long

I'm gonna bribe the officials, I'm gonna kill all the judges/It's gonna take you people years to recover from all of the damage

Basically, the public never responded, you were so amazingly what nobody wanted/I held tight to every scrap that I took in, but it's like it all happened when nobody was looking!

Dawn breaks like a bull through the hall/Never should have called/ but my head's to the wall and I'm lonely

But if the shoe fits, then I won't try it on/You'll be walking out early, but the show must go on/No, I know that I'm wrong/but I love how you're on my side when I cross that line

And I park in an alley and I read through the postcards you continue to send/where, as indirectly as you can, you ask what I remember. I like these torture devices from my old best friend

Turn my headphones up real loud/I don't think I need them now 'cause you stop the noise

'Cause this is the part where I shut up and let you infest my brain/Wrap your arms around my cortex, dig you in and let you drain

Try to look a little older so I can go/down to the bar, there's someone waiting to take me home

I drove home in the California dusk/I could feel the alcohol inside of me hum/Pictured the look on my stepfather's face/Ready for the bad things to come

You must fix your heart/and you must build an altar where it swells/When the storm it gains and the sky it rains/Let it flood, let it flood, let it wash away

Maybe somewhere there's a someone waiting there with a smile/And maybe there'll be a place to stop and rest awhile/And maybe you weren't meant to be just a rolling stone/And there's a road to travel on that leads me back to home

I spent this year as a ghost and I'm not sure what I'm looking for/A voice on the phone that you rarely answer anymore

And I stood there like a businessman waiting for the train/and I got ready for the future to arrive.

I know how you feel, no secrets to reveal (nobody knows me at all)/Very late at night and in the morning light (nobody knows me at all)

I'm not Robert Frost, if I wrote a poem about the weather/ it would start in my car, digging out for an hour

They're gonna clean up your looks with all the lies in the books to make a citizen out of you/because they sleep with a gun and keep an eye on you, son, so they can watch all the things you do

Regrind the lens again, and again, and again, and again, but still the picture flips/Anyone here mentions Hotel California dies before the first line clears his lips

I can see you far away as you grow and change and I stay the same/but I, I'm just like you, I've got, got no name at all

Hey, space cadet, are you still floating around that rock that you spent/so much of your life trying to get away from? (and does it at least look different from up there?)

The nights are lovely, dark, and deep/but I'll appear when you're asleep/You'll wake up with a sudden hurt/mouth and nose all full of dirt

It feels like it takes forever. It's maybe five minutes on the screen/but the horns will swell and the strings will sound when that flipped quarter hits the ground

It reaches in and tears your flesh apart as ice cold hands rip into your heart/That's if you've still got one that's left inside that cave you call a chest

I found a letter that said, "I'm sorry that you were asleep when I wrote these words down."/You'd think I ought to be used to that by now

On your birthday, you woke up/The snow was on the ground/You opened books and peeked inside/They kissed you on your crown

You can't give me back what you've taken/but you can give me something that's almost as good

Maybe you should just drink a lot less coffee and never ever watch the ten o'clock news./Maybe you should kiss someone nice, or lick a rock, or both.

Can you hear me? Are you near me? Can we pretend to leave, and then we'll meet again/ when both our cars collide?

This dream isn't feeling sweet, we're reeling through the midnight streets/and I've never felt more alone, it feels so scary getting old

I hope I cut myself shaving tomorrow. I hope it bleeds all day long/Our friends say it's darkest before the sun rises; we're pretty sure they're all wrong

I awoke to trees passing by at the speed of 65/Took a while to realize where I had spent the night

I won't explain or say I'm sorry/I'm unashamed, I'm gonna show my scars

I could lie and say to you that this would soon be over/I could lie and say I knew where we'd be waking up tomorrow

"June, July, August," she said/They stared at the summer about to fade away

Nothin' bout the way that you were treated ever seemed especially alarming til now/so you tie up your hair and you smile like it's no big deal

A voice like your father's tells you nothing good's for free/Well, that may be, but you're walking home to me

I said more photographs may come to light/I said I'm sorry, and I'm seeking help

You sing the words but don't know what it means/ to be a joke, and look, another line without a hook

And I start laughing like a child, and I mark their faces one by one/Transfiguration's gonna come for me at last and I will burn hotter than the sun

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tuxedokit · 1 year

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Oh I was waiting for you to get through the lightning round ask first LMAO. Anyway it's not a super long analysis, because it's less me being able to envision a full animatic for the song and more me being able to connect so many of the lines to Dion. Not all of them, but many.

Anyway 💅. The song is "Twin Size Mattress" by The Front Bottoms and I just. I just.

"When the floodwater comes, it ain't gonna be clear / it's gonna look like mud / but I will help you swim, I will help you swim / I'm gonna help you swim" and. Dion oldest sibling + Aquato curse vibes. "This is for the snakes and the people they bite / for the friends I've made, for the sleepless nights / for the warning signs I've completely ignored / there's an amount to take, reasons to take more" Dion's psychophobia. how it's affected her family.

"It's no big surprise you turned out this way / when they cut your hair and prayed you would change" how the Aquato's psychophobia hurt Raz and Frazie. "You stopped by my house the night you escaped / with tears in my eyes I begged you to stay" RAZ RUNNING AWAY RAZ RUNNING AWAY. "I'm sure that we could find something for you to do on stage / maybe shake a tambourine or when i sing, you sing harmonies" Dion wanting her brother to just Please Be Normal and Be An Acrobat because that's Safe and she just wants her brother to be Safe. Even as she's hurting him with her prejudices.

"This is for the lake that me and my friends swim in... and it should've felt good, but I can hear the Jaws theme song / on repeat in the back of my mind" THE WATER CURSE. THE AQUATOS LEARNIGN TO SWIM AFTER THE GAMES. omitting the second line of that stanza for,,,, obvious reasons. but the vibe of teenage dumbassery kinda holds up??? like idk dion & frazie swimming with the junior agents. or maybe instead of taking the whole stanza literally we interpret it as the aquato kids all having fun getting into shenanigans at a fair or smth but because of his parentification Dion's got all these worries in the back of his mind.

"Make sure you kiss your knuckles / before you punch me in the face / there are lessons to be learned / consequences for all the stupid things I say" that. that's a Dion line. That's a Dion feeling remorse over "this family will be better off when you're out!" line.

"And it's no big surprise you turned out this way / the spark in your eyes, the look on your face" Raz running off and coming back so strong and so capable. Dion's so proud. Dion's so proud of her little brother and she'll always be proud because of course Raz goes and does great things, Dion's always known her little siblings are going to go and shine so bright.

"I wanna contribute to the chaos / I don't want to watch and then complain / 'cause I am through with finding blame / that is the decision that I have made" That's a Dion line. Their parentification, their whole "i'm not a child anymore so i have to be as Grown Up as possible, I am distancing myself from your silly little tricks and games because I can't afford to be a child anymore. I have to Grow Up" complex. Like just. I just. augh

And then I don't really have anything for that final bit of the song but yeah. This is a Dion Aquato Song™

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everything you said. if i may.

"she hopes im cursed forever / to sleep on a twin sized mattress / in somebodys attic or basement my whole life / never graduating up in size to add another"

"she" being dion. the part if her that will never, ever forgive herself for how badly she hurt her siblings. she doesnt feel she deserves the love she has, let alone more.

#carpet shut up challenge #psychonauts #dion aquato #💜 anon #btw yes my eyes are stinging writing this

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