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Sweep the black super market!Sweep it up with your teeth!
Put your feather in your box (Take off! take off!)Send it off to me!
I smell oxygen, precious. Bareback on your horse, gallop off course.
Get off (Get off! Get off!)filled with fury's force.
There's a fire in the peach pit, a blaze in the snake pit.
You erased it but we saw you fake it.
There's blood on the good book, love in the bad brook.
Suck out all the nerve and make it yours!
"You brought me to my knees. Your art it brought me to my knees"
You're so perfect to please us! You make all the right noise!
Get the business clothes off (Take off! Take off!) and strip down to your voice!
We will show you your future and choke the air from your world.
You can be our once-twice-thrice-four times then goodbye girl!
There's a crack in the blank stare, back in the black raised hair. It's not fair.
I don't know who told you that but it's a lie. Believe me. I swear I shall not deceive thee.
I don't know who sold you that but it's a fake. Remind me.
My eyes see straight behind me. I've never killed nobody.
I promise you're my first; you always remember your first
Put your feather in your box (Take off! take off!)Send it off to me!
I smell oxygen, precious. Bareback on your horse, gallop off course.
Get off (Get off! Get off!)filled with fury's force.
There's a fire in the peach pit, a blaze in the snake pit.
You erased it but we saw you fake it.
There's blood on the good book, love in the bad brook.
Suck out all the nerve and make it yours!
"You brought me to my knees. Your art it brought me to my knees"
You're so perfect to please us! You make all the right noise!
Get the business clothes off (Take off! Take off!) and strip down to your voice!
We will show you your future and choke the air from your world.
You can be our once-twice-thrice-four times then goodbye girl!
There's a crack in the blank stare, back in the black raised hair. It's not fair.
I don't know who told you that but it's a lie. Believe me. I swear I shall not deceive thee.
I don't know who sold you that but it's a fake. Remind me.
My eyes see straight behind me. I've never killed nobody.
I promise you're my first; you always remember your first
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"There's blood on the good book (the bible, or a good piece of literature), love in the bad brook" refers to this I think. The profane and the beautiful are mixed up. "Suck out all the nerve and make it yours" gives an image of taking what's human from the art to use it for their own purposes.
"You brought me to your knees. Your art it brought me to my knees" doesn't tell why he fell to his knees. Out of shock and disgust? Grief? Awe? If the first two he's bemoaning how void and meaningless what some people call "art" is. If the last he's referring to genuine music. Or he's quoting someone claiming art sample A is great, because the next line is "You're so perfect to please us! You make all the right noise". The industry pleased people are glorifying their perversion of art.
"get the business clothes off! (take off! take off!) Strip down to your voice" sounds either like Max yelling for less formality and honesty, or darker it's the industry speaking and caught up in its delusions that it's there to hear people's real voices. In reality it's void and manipulative.
it could even be like someone having sdex with the critics to impress them :x
your art it brought me to my knees"
so now he's gay now?
I ain't givin Him no bj! Bitch! i ain't yo hoe
well the truth is, i'm gay too ( see my comment on That's That)
"put your feather in your box
(take off, take off)"
^ i kind of think that has something to do with advance releases artists send to critics.. max uses 'feather' as a metaphor for record to show that to a music critic that's exactly how much music is worth.
"you brought me to my knees
your art it brought me to my knees"
^ i think that has something to do with those people who seem to just ignore music.. because sometimes there is one record that they stumble upon that makes them change their minds.
also sometimes when i'm listening to this i like to think they're railing against something like pitchfork ha ha
Fav Say Anything song. I love the "I don't know who told you that..." part.
i can also see that he's singing from the point of view of a critic maybe? the verses in the song are incredibly negative, raging at the state of the industry, yet the chorus is uplifting, maybe the "your art it brought me to my knees" is a reference to genuine music, like his own. again, just an opinion