These lyrics are pretty easy to understand looking back on them

Can someone fully explain Seigfried by Frank Ocean to me?

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We dissect "Seigfried" by Frank Ocean, a song expressing Frank's feelings of alienation and isolation, leading to an existential crisis.

this is close enough, thank you

good boy

I like these easter eggs

First verse he describes he has trouble fitting into social norms, and potentially dealing with a break up, or telling someone he's leaving

He talks about fitting into societal norms by the second verse also, and basically how he'd rather be homeless than live out a basic American life, where he has family and s***. He's basically implying he wants more, doesn't want to fit in to the status quo

The bridge t"his is not my life, just a farewell to a friend" implies the suspicion from the first verse that he's leaving someone he cares about, and the life he's living now is not who he wants to be himself

The third verse is probably about d****, which Frank mentions a lot, this is basically like a short dissertation on a really CRAZY high, like think of Joe Rogan talking about DMT. Its kind of like some Inception s***, where your in a dream with a in a dream.

The last verse opening line is "less morose and more present" so this kind of clarifies everything

To me the song is about Frank escaping modern, boring lifestyles pressured by modern America, and trying to fit in a mold, he leaves someone in this scenario, and then goes to get high, having an inner conflict about spirituality and trying to escape his sadness from that struggle as much as he can. It becomes harder to cope with reality, and instead tries to reach a higher plane of existence.

TLDR: Frank leaves someone, feels bad about it, does d**** to feel less bad about it, and tries to reach a spiritual high to get closer with God, or some other abstract form of the afterlife

The farewell to a friend line is actually borrowed from an Elliott Smith song about kicking heroin, so I think it's more about Frank getting rid of his own addiction to these negative thought patterns (reliving the past, overthinking about past relationships, all the things he spends a lot of time doing on Blonde). This continues into Godspeed where he finally says goodbye to his old lover

well Im not going to take into account what the Elliot Smith song is about to Elliot, whatever that song means to Frank it means to him, less of a surface level thing about heroin, and more in the mind of how Frank thinks of it, on some Carl Jung s***

Also for all the Frank fans on this site, do not get mad at people when they don't get the lyrics, these lyrics are really abstract and incredibly unspecific in a practical sense, and personal

A lot of artists do stuff that can’t necessarily be explained by themselves. That doesn’t mean it makes no sense, but rather that it’s maybe more about the sensation/feeling of the expression rather than some deeper articulation.

Of course, sometimes fans are able to ‘make meaning’ of out it nonetheless, but it’s hard to say how much is the result of fan interpretation vs artist intention

pretentious

If you can relate to it the song makes perfect sense. It’s not narrative... it’s just him speaking on his thought process and observations of his life and the world around him. It’s a song about a mind state. If most of blonde is about an idealized past, this is the song that takes the reminiscing and states it’s current impact on his life.

Imma listen to this tonight, really love this song and the album and haven’t listened to it in a minute.

Idk but that song always get me in my feels

i'd do anything for you
in the dark

Absolute classic Was listening to this after re watching waves

not speaking on this song specifically but I don’t think a song necessarily has to have a concrete meaning. What the artist says might just be associations they have in their own mind, it might be just a thought or line that evokes a feeling for them in a way that isn’t 100% explainable.

Music/art is ultimately interpreted by the viewer because we are the ones experiencing the piece. It’s meaning is largely whatever people get out of it, regardless of the artists intent.

i read a interesting theory on twitter that outside of the rapping part at the end, the song isn’t from Frank’s perspective but a lover scared to come out the closet

I don't trust myself to just make my own rules like that

That's way too much responsibility

isolation and uncertainty

the elliott smith reference

So good

been living in an idea

an idea from another man’s mind

i like this 1