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A Germ Of Something (12/29)


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On Listening To Nine Inch Nails

 

Angst is just awkward, an anxious state

A misplaced foot and Germanic A

Full of fear and trembling and emotions displaced

A Mitteleuropa mark from a time and a place

 

Aloha is Hawaiian and thus hard to say

Too many vowels, they get in your way

You need a uke or a slack key guitar

The far northern topics is where you are

 

A drone doesn't work if it's strictly alone

It must be detuned with a beat in its own

Overtones and modes and the root which is home

It's a solid yet fragile harmonic zone

 

Distortion distortion piled on top

Bitcrushed or boogex or amps that won't stop

Communist industry, factory grind

The whine of a saw on the grate of your mind

 

 

Now, off to go ski - happy New Year!

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This is impressive writing. The metamorphosis from the original to the shortened lyric is great.
I'm impressed by the way the meaning is retained in an abbreviated form.

Leaving meaning aside for the moment, I couldn't help but notice the following possibility lyric-wise (in a totally not taking itself seriously sorta way):

I feel angst
War between the classes
I feel gangsta
Wanna {censored} my mother
I feel djangsta
I lost my archtop
But underneath your solid body
I'll believe your hype

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