It's actually kind of alarming how many people are so willing to simply interpret this as a typical "Be Yourself" type song.
Is anyone else concerned about the grizzly metaphors he uses? He's not completely glorifying being independent, he's saying that there's an ugly price for cutting off these parts of your identity. The whole "cut your suffer off" seems like a warning that if you were to do what he suggests you'd become rather inhuman.
It's actually kind of alarming how many people are so willing to simply interpret this as a typical "Be Yourself" type song. Is anyone else concerned about the grizzly metaphors he uses? He's not completely glorifying being independent, he's saying that there's an ugly price for cutting off these parts of your identity. The whole "cut your suffer off" seems like a warning that if you were to do what he suggests you'd become rather inhuman.