![]() ![]() She adores “no eye”, rejecting anybody who passes judgment on others. But there does seem to be some kind of self-awareness of her evolution from Verse 1 to Verse 2. The breakdown seems to be mostly wordplay, and I don’t speak whatever language she uses in the end of it so I'm not sure about that. She's given up all negative attitudes and being critical. But this time, there’s no indication that she’s passing judgment on the people involved: neither herself or the whore. Verse 2 discusses the same types of crazy and outlandish events that we found in the first verse (here, it’s her talking to her dad about anal sex, murdering someone for something as petty as code, and a “whore” who is clearly tripping on something). I think the use of “waifu” is meant to indicate how she literally has affection for whatever the cause of her luck is. And she wishes she could know why those things land in her lap when they do, but you get the feeling that she doesn't care so much about knowing the answer as much as she cares about giving praise to whatever, or whoever, is the cause of the random goodness in her life - whatever it is, they're likened to a benevolent God (“Oh, Messiah”). She seems to want to hold dearly, greedily on to those things when they happen (they’re “all mine, mine”). ![]() Like the child, this girl is in awe at the good things she randomly comes across in her life. I think here she’s depicting herself as a child who finds a paper plane that lands near them but has no idea where it came from. But then she seems to question whether other people are more ridiculous than her (while Yosef laughs at something inside of her, he’s really laughing at his smells) and whether it’s the crazy world (popes are out “in the streets” like regular people and they’re praising ISIS publicly) itself that’s to blame for the bad stuff happening to those around her.Īll of this hatred – of herself and others – is quickly juxtaposed with the chorus, which sounds like a psalm or a hymn of some sort. There’s a lot of room for interpretation, but I think it’s about a girl reacting to the messed-up world around her and wondering why there’s so much bad in the world, but eventually seeing and dwelling in the fact that there’s a lot of good.Īt first, she expresses self-loathing and blame: She is disgusted with herself (she’s a “four-assed” “bubble”) and blames herself for the bad shit that happens to the people around her (she’s the “hugest pneumonia” in her whole “tribe”). Since the meaning of the song might not be clear, here's my best shot: Go watch the music video again, but this time flip the video upside down, invert the colors, and zoom in 750% on Clairo’s nose ring from 1:18-1:22. Wi shi an ip ĮDIT: I have confirmed that these lyrics are accurate. I killed on the street for your ASCII, broĪ whore says, “We’ll run through weathered candy corn” Popes are in the streets Ī bean with you makes me fill that asshole I'm pretty confident that most of it is right, but let me know if you have any corrections. I used brackets to indicate when a different lyric might be accurate or when I'm uncertain. So I tried to transcribe them myself as accurately as possible. ![]() Get it here.I couldn't find the lyrics to this song anywhere, official or otherwise. Sling is out now via Fader Label/Republic Records. I’m just recently starting to accept it, because now I actually believe in this music.” Without that support, I don’t know if I would have been able to finish the record. In the aforementioned Rolling Stone piece, Clairo said of working with people like Lorde and Antonoff, “It’s still really hard for me to wrap my head around these people giving me the time of day. On the gentle folk-y tune, Clairo sings about the societal pressure she feels to become a mother: “I’m born to be somebody, then somebody comes from me / I’ll tell you about the Rabbit Moon and when to keep walking / I’ll spare you pain, I can feel my shame come through that door / I can’t f*ck it up if it’s not there at all.” In a Rolling Stone interview published last week, it was revealed that Lorde also contributed vocals to the Sling cut “Reaper,” and now that the album is out today, so too is the new Clairo/Lorde collaboration. That connection allowed her to get acquainted with Lorde, who provided background vocals on the single “ Blouse” (and in turn got Clairo to feature on her own “ Solar Power“). While Clairo’s debut album, 2019’s Immunity, was co-written in part with Rostam Batmanglij, on her latest, the newly released Sling, she teamed up with Jack Antonoff. ![]()
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