'This song tells a story of a hunter meeting a big predator. They’re both starving, they’re both emaciated and both have equal need and reason to kill each other but they both decide not to - which is a metaphor for the warring parts of someone struggling with mental illness. The song ends with these two beings living together side by side and showing each other love. If it was easy to kill something, you would have done it already. “Hunter is a reckoning and a reflection on all the times I decided to keep living instead of giving up. I wrote it after a prolonged period of darkness and depression.” - Paris Paloma about Hunter' Fucking sobbing.
Unfortunately these emotions make some of the best songs...writing and composing myself during these times , i know how it feels ... I Remember the pain that never seems to want to end ... Being alone and praying to God for his help and long walks in some sort of brain fog and numbing not knowing where i was going...Later writing songs with tears dripping from my face onto my guitar... i feel you! cheers
😮 oh crap it's you. Beautiful voice btw. This song has a very specific spiritual meaning to me !!!!! And I can't stop crying. Atm. This literally is me and my husbands story.
Paris has said this is a metaphor about waring with and eventually learning to live with mental illness, but does anyone else see the parallels between this and "boys, bugs and men"? not killing something even though you could, even though it's threatening you vs. killing small and little things just because you can? idk i like the dichotomy
Man this song is giving me absolute chills. I came to the realization recently that a man I felt I could rely on was actually Grooming and manipulating me for almost a year. Once I realized what was actually happening, I suddenly felt this weight lift, fueled by disgust for what he’d done, I came back to myself and am taking my power back from a sick weak person trying to use me for his selfish gains
Love the mental health undertones in the messaging here. I'm dealing with a lot of grief right now and this has been another way to help "process" those feelings. 💜 All my love and respect to Paris.
Your music sweeps my audhd mind into a whirlwind that moves through my body, inspiring movement that carries me through the processing of decades of PTSD created by a lifetime of abuse. Your music resonates with the soul of womanhood in a misogynistic dystopia. Thank you for the beauty you create.
I had a visceral reaction to this. I was listening at work and really looking at the lyrics to digest them (I have to read the lyrics on a first listen to a song) and it just hit me. Suddenly I was choked up, tearing up, actually fighting back sobs and for a moment I didn't understand why. My first reaction was to view this as a person seeing the humanity and hurt in their abuser and that hit so home for me that it was a solid five minutes before I could talk to the people around me. I know now the intended meaning of the song but I can't shake my initial feelings from that listen. I don't know if I will be able to listen to this again without breaking down but I love what you're doing; it affects people, it allows people to start healing. Recognizing that you put my wound into words, maybe without meaning to, makes me feel better. I want to one day be healed enough to listen to this without crying.
In my mind I tend to imagine this song as a relationship between two people. A lot of lines lend themselves to my imagination in the form of narcissistic personality disorder. “Looking for a meal”: looking for narcissistic supply and an ego boost. “Kill”: devalue and discard. “I felt sick at my contempt, for you were like me, like some outside force had sent me”: the person talking feels contempt towards the other for their “pathetic” behavior before realizing that they are essentially the same, the sick feeling being narcissistic injury. Realizing that maybe this is relationship is somehow worth it despite everything. “You were at my feet, and we’re by the fire”: instead of feeding off of each other and getting worse or completely avoiding each other as would be expected, their relationship manages to actually help them both in their healing. “Starving”: suffering. Both of them are suffering and are miserable in their disorder under the grandiose personality and meeting each other has helped them recognize that. “And I’m alive”: the person is recovering and managing to live a life worth living. They might even genuinely feel happy. Sorry this is like a really random view on this song. My first thought when I heard it was the mental illness is the beast: killing the beast is full recovery and killing the hunter is suicide. This idea only came to me later and I doubt it would be easily understood by almost anyone but 🤷♀️ I’ll share anyways.
This song is so beautiful and I love the way it's much more allegorical than some of the others (caveat that I love literally all of them). You can sit and listen without interpreting further but you can also find so much personal meaning and connection, as comments are already sharing!
The predator and prey relationship abuse normally has such as a toxic relationship yet it shows the deeper aspect of how the aggressor can also be aggressive out for a deeper reason such as already being wounded mentally or starved for love the endeding sounds like codependency or even a form of healing and truce on both sides depending how you take each line
I read from the commentators here that this is a metaphor to mental health issues, and it’s beautiful ❤. But also thank you for keeping the beast alive and healthy, I was worried for the furry friend 💚
This song feels like a new way of thinking like it slows my mind, as it processes something new. Perhaps I could get used to this feeling if I kept trying
is it just me or is this so hiccup and toothless from httyd???? i love this song and have listened to it like 100 times my favourite line is "if i were easy to kill you would've done it already" but a close second is "you're a gentle purring beast and im alive" 🥹🥹🥹
I can't tell you how long I've waited for this release. I fell in love with the short. If I were easy to kill you would have done it already. That describes my life to a T.
Yes. *Spoilers alert* Her loneliness meeting Tamlin's one and them falling in love just to then realise they couldn't heal each other trauma. But still chose not killing each others after everything that happened and merely going their own way.
I think too it's about learning to trust other humans in addition to ourselves. When somebody has truckloads of anxiety they see them all with predator goggles, even if the predator is revealed to be prey. Those janky goggles are impossible to get off if other people force them to stay on for too long. On a different yet related note, I know it's common to compare mental illnesses to mid-to-large predator animals, or maybe just animals with more power in general than humans. Yet, we can trust non-humans to not think too much and therefore not develop mental illnesses. And despite trying I can't explain my thoughts about it any further, other than I feel contemplative in a good way about the comparison, lol 🙃
Anyone else reminded of Feyre and the beast at the beginning of ACOTAR? I know she ended up killing it but I can’t help but see the similarities. I don’t know, maybe I’m going crazy
I didn't know this song was about mental illness. I wish more people knew about decolinial non-pathologizing approaches to mental health, like the ones coming from the neurodiversity paradigm.
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'This song tells a story of a hunter meeting a big predator. They’re both starving, they’re both emaciated and both have equal need and reason to kill each other but they both decide not to - which is a metaphor for the warring parts of someone struggling with mental illness. The song ends with these two beings living together side by side and showing each other love. If it was easy to kill something, you would have done it already.
“Hunter is a reckoning and a reflection on all the times I decided to keep living instead of giving up. I wrote it after a prolonged period of darkness and depression.” - Paris Paloma about Hunter'
Fucking sobbing.
Unfortunately these emotions make some of the best songs...writing and composing myself during these times , i know how it feels ... I Remember the pain that never seems to want to end ... Being alone and praying to God for his help and long walks in some sort of brain fog and numbing not knowing where i was going...Later writing songs with tears dripping from my face onto my guitar... i feel you! cheers
Thank you for sharing these insights! 🙏
😮 oh crap it's you. Beautiful voice btw. This song has a very specific spiritual meaning to me !!!!! And I can't stop crying. Atm. This literally is me and my husbands story.
Ya im done ✔️ 😮 , !!! I can definitely relate to wanting to just give up on life. ! And being lucky enough to to come across love.
Beautiful and powerful. She's definitely a new favorite
Paris has said this is a metaphor about waring with and eventually learning to live with mental illness, but does anyone else see the parallels between this and "boys, bugs and men"? not killing something even though you could, even though it's threatening you vs. killing small and little things just because you can? idk i like the dichotomy
No cause that makes it even better! She's giving herself the mercy and kindness that those boys and men couldn't even give a bug
Actually from the first line that was already what I thought this was.
This is a very powerful song
Man this song is giving me absolute chills. I came to the realization recently that a man I felt I could rely on was actually Grooming and manipulating me for almost a year. Once I realized what was actually happening, I suddenly felt this weight lift, fueled by disgust for what he’d done, I came back to myself and am taking my power back from a sick weak person trying to use me for his selfish gains
Love the mental health undertones in the messaging here. I'm dealing with a lot of grief right now and this has been another way to help "process" those feelings. 💜 All my love and respect to Paris.
Heard this in a short and had to search for it. What a song
What a voice.
She's A Really Good Singer!! :D I'd Recommend Checking Out "Last Woman On Earth", She's Phenomenal In That Song IMO :3
Your music sweeps my audhd mind into a whirlwind that moves through my body, inspiring movement that carries me through the processing of decades of PTSD created by a lifetime of abuse. Your music resonates with the soul of womanhood in a misogynistic dystopia. Thank you for the beauty you create.
I am with you on that my friend 🙏
As a fellow AuDHD-er, you summed this up so perfectly!
Also a fellow AuDHD-er, and I agree wholeheartedly with this comment
Don't want to cheapen the tone here... but is anyone else thinking Hiccup and Toothless?
Oh my god. I need someone to edit them now that you mentioned it
@Rebecca-vb2jz OMG. Yes!!!🤩
...Yes
Yes
I had a visceral reaction to this. I was listening at work and really looking at the lyrics to digest them (I have to read the lyrics on a first listen to a song) and it just hit me. Suddenly I was choked up, tearing up, actually fighting back sobs and for a moment I didn't understand why. My first reaction was to view this as a person seeing the humanity and hurt in their abuser and that hit so home for me that it was a solid five minutes before I could talk to the people around me. I know now the intended meaning of the song but I can't shake my initial feelings from that listen. I don't know if I will be able to listen to this again without breaking down but I love what you're doing; it affects people, it allows people to start healing. Recognizing that you put my wound into words, maybe without meaning to, makes me feel better. I want to one day be healed enough to listen to this without crying.
This feels like the hero and villain falling in love
In my mind I tend to imagine this song as a relationship between two people. A lot of lines lend themselves to my imagination in the form of narcissistic personality disorder.
“Looking for a meal”: looking for narcissistic supply and an ego boost.
“Kill”: devalue and discard.
“I felt sick at my contempt, for you were like me, like some outside force had sent me”: the person talking feels contempt towards the other for their “pathetic” behavior before realizing that they are essentially the same, the sick feeling being narcissistic injury. Realizing that maybe this is relationship is somehow worth it despite everything.
“You were at my feet, and we’re by the fire”: instead of feeding off of each other and getting worse or completely avoiding each other as would be expected, their relationship manages to actually help them both in their healing.
“Starving”: suffering. Both of them are suffering and are miserable in their disorder under the grandiose personality and meeting each other has helped them recognize that.
“And I’m alive”: the person is recovering and managing to live a life worth living. They might even genuinely feel happy.
Sorry this is like a really random view on this song. My first thought when I heard it was the mental illness is the beast: killing the beast is full recovery and killing the hunter is suicide. This idea only came to me later and I doubt it would be easily understood by almost anyone but 🤷♀️ I’ll share anyways.
This song is so beautiful and I love the way it's much more allegorical than some of the others (caveat that I love literally all of them). You can sit and listen without interpreting further but you can also find so much personal meaning and connection, as comments are already sharing!
The predator and prey relationship abuse normally has such as a toxic relationship yet it shows the deeper aspect of how the aggressor can also be aggressive out for a deeper reason such as already being wounded mentally or starved for love the endeding sounds like codependency or even a form of healing and truce on both sides depending how you take each line
Let music be thy healer.thankyou❤
yeah but dont forget to go to the doctor tho 😂😂😂
I read from the commentators here that this is a metaphor to mental health issues, and it’s beautiful ❤. But also thank you for keeping the beast alive and healthy, I was worried for the furry friend 💚
Yep. Immediately favourite song off this album. 😍
A masterpiece. Paris Paloma, you are a blessing. Thank you for making music ❤
Ok so two weeks on repeat and this does not get old
her lyrics are so meaningful and she has a beautiful voice
I knew there would be another absolute gem in the new album, hidden away. Well done
New adhd hyperfixation song unlocked 😍
I'm enchanted with this song
Paris you are amazing. Inspiring so many young women. Thank you
Girl, your music is so good! I really like your new album, but this song... amazing!!!!
This song feels like a new way of thinking like it slows my mind, as it processes something new. Perhaps I could get used to this feeling if I kept trying
How long I have waited for the song without knowing it. ❤
is it just me or is this so hiccup and toothless from httyd???? i love this song and have listened to it like 100 times my favourite line is "if i were easy to kill you would've done it already" but a close second is "you're a gentle purring beast and im alive" 🥹🥹🥹
SOOOO GOOD and make me think and feel!
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Please, I need to listen to this song everyday.
This is an amazing song, you're songs just empower me so much. I'm so glad I came across an absolutely gorgeous singer like you!!
Listening to this while studying because Paris is an inspiration. ❤
Such a good song to write to
Beautiful
this song speaks to me so much thank you paris you are a gift to this earth.
This is.. wow. I adore this very, very much
idk but when i heard it, i suddenly had a court of thorns and roses in my head. it's so tamlin and feyre vibe, especially the beginning of their story
This gives me Jude Duarte vibes❤❤❤
I can't tell you how long I've waited for this release. I fell in love with the short. If I were easy to kill you would have done it already. That describes my life to a T.
It reminds me of ACOTAR. Feyre hunting,.starving in the snow. Chills. I love this song.
Yes. *Spoilers alert* Her loneliness meeting Tamlin's one and them falling in love just to then realise they couldn't heal each other trauma. But still chose not killing each others after everything that happened and merely going their own way.
this is so good omg
Paris is ❤.
One of my favs🩷🩷
Love this song 🖤
41 minutes? Yay! I was just listening to cacophony-
this song is such a gem ♥
Wow. This is a good , quality song.
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*You’re amazing ,stay blessed, stay safe and have a amazing rest of your day,and hope everyone finds inner peace*
visuals and song 100/10
Amazing ❤
Brilliant, as always
So gorgeous😍
Personal time stamps don't bother 0:47 1:33
Suberb.. les paroles ❤ merciii🎉
Yes.
I LOVEEEE THIS SONG SO MUCCHHHHH❤❤❤❤
Love it
this song makes me want to run and scream in the woods preferable with a cloak
this should have been a single
This song really deserves more hype
I'd say it should have a music video but there's something so pure in it being the sound alone
I like this.
I think too it's about learning to trust other humans in addition to ourselves. When somebody has truckloads of anxiety they see them all with predator goggles, even if the predator is revealed to be prey. Those janky goggles are impossible to get off if other people force them to stay on for too long.
On a different yet related note, I know it's common to compare mental illnesses to mid-to-large predator animals, or maybe just animals with more power in general than humans. Yet, we can trust non-humans to not think too much and therefore not develop mental illnesses. And despite trying I can't explain my thoughts about it any further, other than I feel contemplative in a good way about the comparison, lol 🙃
i just wanna hug that deer
This song gives me wolfwalker vibes
I love this
IM HEREEEEE
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Song is hunter by Paris Paloma
Yes it is
the alive is kinda sounding like i am a liar
Anyone else reminded of Feyre and the beast at the beginning of ACOTAR? I know she ended up killing it but I can’t help but see the similarities. I don’t know, maybe I’m going crazy
I didn't know this song was about mental illness.
I wish more people knew about decolinial non-pathologizing approaches to mental health, like the ones coming from the neurodiversity paradigm.
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Отличная песня, только зачем на весь экран субтитры?
Это караоке и надо петь тоже?
Испоритили видео.
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I need to read a book with this beautiful plot T_T 🩵
ACOTAR is the book