Absolutely LOVE this version of the song! Always find myself coming back to this video after hearing it on my Spotify playlist. So much extra raw power
Really stunningly beautiful. I love how this sounds on guitar, and I always enjoy hearing you sing, especially in less polished forms like this. Thank you for sharing this
I genuinely don't understand how you're not famous famous, I mean your work on Divorce Lawyers I Shaved My Head is pretty well known, but I feel like the rest of your music is pretty slept on, and I don't understand why, you have a very unique voice and you utilize it in a very beautiful way.
ecstatic you performed all three parts 💙 long-winded question: i remember seeing users boiling down certain anaphoric "he"/"she" lines in your discography as broader statements regarding gender dichotomy, possibly failing to consider how often your songs dig deep into specific periods of your past explored in works such as The Skin Team. as a song/writer that often recounts deeply personal tales through metaphor, what do you feel upon seeing others attempting/failing to analyze these anecdotal remnants of your lived experience as though they are mere works of fiction created for the purpose of social commentary? do you feel interpreters of your art/art in general are too eager to seek closure in their convenient analyses of art that so often attempts to convey irrepricable emotions from experiences they (the consumer) have never lived?
Hi, thank you for your question. I try as best I can not to think about how my lyrics are interpreted, though obviously I can't help but be a little curious about it. My lyrics are always grounded in personal lived experience, and as much as I'm quite open about the content of my songs, I do feel uneasy being too specific about certain details and who or what they relate to from my life, since the people I'm responding to and writing about are real people with their own ideas and interpretations of our experiences together. I think on Divorce Lawyers the constant flipping between gender pronouns is inviting an anaphoric reading, but I have noticed that people tend to map that onto all of my work, when really it's not present in most of my songwriting. That said I don't harbour any negative feelings towards the various ways my work has been interpreted, because ultimately my songs are attempting to get at a feeling or emotional experience just as much (if not sometimes more so) than telling a story. And generally it seems the feeling is properly communicated even if the specific details are misread. A lot of my songs are about multiple people and experiences that are placed together and often that makes them sound like they're about one person or experience. Liturgy three, for example, references at least five different people in it, but because I just use "she" and "he," it probably sounds like two people, or even one person if read the same way people read divorce lawyers lyrics. I don't really see that as a problem though because I am deliberately keeping these things vague to protect myself & the people I'm singing about. That was long winded and I don't know if I answered your question haha.
@@ohmapcomplicated questions about complicated ideas yield complicated answers; we're complicated creatures! i'm just grateful you decided to spend so much precious wind on a response. 💙
@@ohmap likewise: i absolutely understand the need to obscure details of one's past in their art using metaphor. there are endless questions you could ask yourself when making art - and sometimes, the more questions you ask yourself, the more you realize how vulnerable that art makes you/others. like, am i discussing my past? if yes, does this include people from my past? if yes, is it possible those people may see this? if yes, am i obscuring the literal through metaphor? if yes, am i doing so for my sake, or theirs? if im doing so for my sake, am i being disrespectful or unfair? if im doing so for their sake, why am i even sharing it in the first place? could this art hurt us? is this art picking wounds, or licking them? do i deserve to worry this much about the consequences of expressing myself? it can be a hell of a tightrope to walk, and metaphor can seemingly provide a safety net. that's why "No More Metaphor" truly struck a chord with me. it's a brave thing to do, and i applaud your vulnerability.
feels like your lyrics sits in my lungs so comfortingly, like a hug from the inside. its truly a form of self care.
Absolutely LOVE this version of the song! Always find myself coming back to this video after hearing it on my Spotify playlist. So much extra raw power
Really stunningly beautiful. I love how this sounds on guitar, and I always enjoy hearing you sing, especially in less polished forms like this. Thank you for sharing this
I genuinely don't understand how you're not famous famous, I mean your work on Divorce Lawyers I Shaved My Head is pretty well known, but I feel like the rest of your music is pretty slept on, and I don't understand why, you have a very unique voice and you utilize it in a very beautiful way.
ecstatic you performed all three parts 💙
long-winded question: i remember seeing users boiling down certain anaphoric "he"/"she" lines in your discography as broader statements regarding gender dichotomy, possibly failing to consider how often your songs dig deep into specific periods of your past explored in works such as The Skin Team.
as a song/writer that often recounts deeply personal tales through metaphor, what do you feel upon seeing others attempting/failing to analyze these anecdotal remnants of your lived experience as though they are mere works of fiction created for the purpose of social commentary? do you feel interpreters of your art/art in general are too eager to seek closure in their convenient analyses of art that so often attempts to convey irrepricable emotions from experiences they (the consumer) have never lived?
Hi, thank you for your question. I try as best I can not to think about how my lyrics are interpreted, though obviously I can't help but be a little curious about it. My lyrics are always grounded in personal lived experience, and as much as I'm quite open about the content of my songs, I do feel uneasy being too specific about certain details and who or what they relate to from my life, since the people I'm responding to and writing about are real people with their own ideas and interpretations of our experiences together. I think on Divorce Lawyers the constant flipping between gender pronouns is inviting an anaphoric reading, but I have noticed that people tend to map that onto all of my work, when really it's not present in most of my songwriting. That said I don't harbour any negative feelings towards the various ways my work has been interpreted, because ultimately my songs are attempting to get at a feeling or emotional experience just as much (if not sometimes more so) than telling a story. And generally it seems the feeling is properly communicated even if the specific details are misread. A lot of my songs are about multiple people and experiences that are placed together and often that makes them sound like they're about one person or experience. Liturgy three, for example, references at least five different people in it, but because I just use "she" and "he," it probably sounds like two people, or even one person if read the same way people read divorce lawyers lyrics. I don't really see that as a problem though because I am deliberately keeping these things vague to protect myself & the people I'm singing about. That was long winded and I don't know if I answered your question haha.
@@ohmapcomplicated questions about complicated ideas yield complicated answers; we're complicated creatures! i'm just grateful you decided to spend so much precious wind on a response. 💙
@@ohmap likewise: i absolutely understand the need to obscure details of one's past in their art using metaphor. there are endless questions you could ask yourself when making art - and sometimes, the more questions you ask yourself, the more you realize how vulnerable that art makes you/others.
like, am i discussing my past? if yes, does this include people from my past? if yes, is it possible those people may see this? if yes, am i obscuring the literal through metaphor? if yes, am i doing so for my sake, or theirs? if im doing so for my sake, am i being disrespectful or unfair? if im doing so for their sake, why am i even sharing it in the first place? could this art hurt us? is this art picking wounds, or licking them? do i deserve to worry this much about the consequences of expressing myself?
it can be a hell of a tightrope to walk, and metaphor can seemingly provide a safety net. that's why "No More Metaphor" truly struck a chord with me. it's a brave thing to do, and i applaud your vulnerability.