women like this have a certain 'power' over me thanks for the amazing post
Focus!
I would rather hear the most generic bars about popping molly and f***ing b****es than some vapid nonsense lyrics trying to trick you into thinking they've said something important. It's so dishonest.
What’s your interpretation then? Because the “them” is clearly mechanics/people who work on cars
no it’s not..
that entire verse is frank reflecting on his life post katrina, the first portion highlights distrust with friends and relatives “although you beaucoup family, nobody being honest with you” and then he says he knows his car better than most people bc he’s building it himself - then goes back and highlights distrust again with the “break the law again” line
the mechanic theory funny af tho s*** made me laugh
you can’t break the law with them is not a shot at mechanics lmaooo
“therefore they’re probably also snitches so you shouldn’t commit crimes with mechanics”
Wtf im crying bro how you get to that conclusion tf 😭
“I don’t trust em anyways, you can’t break the law with them” is about how mechanics are known to be dishonest and overcharge for fixing cars, therefore they’re probably also snitches so you shouldn’t commit crimes with mechanics
“Spend it when I get that, I ain’t tryna keep you, can’t keep up a conversation can’t nobody read you” is about Frank’s relationship with money, he doesn’t want to keep paper money because it can’t keep a conversation and nobody can read “e pluribus unum” these days
Ayo
we got genius annotators itt 😭
Cooked em
pretty sure he's talking about his life and mental state when he was broke and trying to make it
public transportation, handmade belongings
he knows this life better than most people
can't trust most people
not close or trusting enough with people these days
and then the rest of the verse is about getting the bag and dodging people he doesn't like from his past or in his present
When frank does it it’s “riffing”, when Travis does it it’s audio terrorism
long story short it’s racism
nights lyrics make total sense though
not to say he doesn’t have songs that are at least hard to understand the meaning of
You gotta be a certain level of gay to understand Frank Ocean lyrics
glad i'm very gay then
I feel bad for people like OP, must have a hard time listening to music with a brain like that respectfully
i thought you were gonna post Seigfried
Speaking of nirvana, it was there
Rare as the feathers on my dash from a phoenix
There with my crooked teeth and companion sleeping, yeah
Dreaming a thought that could dream about a thought
That could think of the dreamer that thought
That could think of dreaming and getting a glimmer of God
I be dreaming a dream in a thought
That could dream about a thought
That could think of dreaming a dream
Where I can not, where I can not
Less morose and more present
Dwell on my gifts for a second
A moment one solar flare would consume, so why not
Spin this flammable paper on the film that's my life
High flights, inhale the vapor, exhale once and think twice
Eat some shrooms, maybe have a good cry, about you
See some colors, light hang glide off the moon
this part actually goes stupid hard and i'm pretty sure if i wanted to i would make sense of them but i don't know, when the song is actually playing it just sounds like a lot of nothing... in a good way, like i said, the song really does go stupid hard
i thought you were gonna post Seigfried
Speaking of nirvana, it was there
Rare as the feathers on my dash from a phoenix
There with my crooked teeth and companion sleeping, yeah
Dreaming a thought that could dream about a thought
That could think of the dreamer that thought
That could think of dreaming and getting a glimmer of God
I be dreaming a dream in a thought
That could dream about a thought
That could think of dreaming a dream
Where I can not, where I can not
Less morose and more present
Dwell on my gifts for a second
A moment one solar flare would consume, so why not
Spin this flammable paper on the film that's my life
High flights, inhale the vapor, exhale once and think twice
Eat some shrooms, maybe have a good cry, about you
See some colors, light hang glide off the moon
this part actually goes stupid hard and i'm pretty sure if i wanted to i would make sense of them but i don't know, when the song is actually playing it just sounds like a lot of nothing... in a good way, like i said, the song really does go stupid hard
What’s kinda crazy is I know I’m wrong but I think of the phoenix metaphor as in Gta San Andreas how rare it was to find a phoenix car and then the actual meaning to me it always just makes such a dope double entendre.
Rare as the feathers on my dash from a phoenix
There with my crooked teeth and companion sleeping, yeah
Since he says on my dash from a phoenix.
I just think of Gta San Andreas here I can’t help it.
Since he has the blonded radio in gta V it just adds to my feeling of that line even more but as I said it’s just for fun and that’s where I believe music is overlooked the fun of the music. Nostalgia factors is always one for me even if the line is not exact it brings you to a place that is similar.
About the nights verse this thread is even about there is a line there that makes sense in a different context every time you listen to it. Blond is so amazing because it truly feels as you are stepping into a different experience each time. Nights is genius. Nights slander is pointless in anyway.