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TITLE: Seventeen BY: Varanese Gallo LENGTH: 4:06 GENRE: Alternative rock, alternative metal LABEL: Titanic RecordsIn the last few songs of the album, Seventeen is the one with the big reveal. Vara/Alice's family are done wondering what is wrong with Vara and why she is spending all of her time at this Rabbit Hole, talking about Wonderland and how to get back to it. They go into her room and find several syringes. It is revealed that Vara has had a very heavy coke habit in the past and has now obviously relapsed. It is at this point that the listener/reader/audience should be realizing that Vara never went to Wonderland and never saw a Cheshier Cat or the Queen or even the Hatter. She was just having vivid hallucinations from the coke. She has been meeting her dealer at the Rabbit Hole, and then immediately getting high, which is what has caused her to associate the Rabbit Hole with going to Wonderland. Now her dealer - who looks exactly like the Hatter that she met in Wonderland - is back and Vara is more than ready to go back to Wonderland again. This song is the song that the dealer/the Hatter is singing to his customers - or, more exclusively, Vara - telling them that this is a money making business, and if they want what they want (ie. going back to her "Wonderland"), they need to fork over the money. The song's slowness mixed with it's eeriness makes the dealer seem almost like a god among men - giving these addicts exactly what they need to be happy and asking only for money in return. Although we can say that he is abusing the power that he has over these people because of their addictions, to Vara, he is her savior - like somebody trying to rescue her like the Hatter was. The song is a mixture between what Vara thinks she sees in this dealer - the soft music giving him an air of beauty and decency - and how the dealer really is - the lyrics asking them for money to get what they want, showing his creed and corruption towards addicts who need help.I'm going to get you One, two, three I'm going to be you Guarentee I'm going to make this Fit, you see Turn it into Make believe
I'm going to make this fit Turn it into fantasy I'm going to do what you please Follow me One, two, three
You'll want to hear about it Reading your mind off my sleeve You'll want to hear about it I'm on my feet until they bleed, saying
Give it to me I mean your cash Give it to me I want all of that Give it to me I said money From the start, no apologies
I'm going to get you One, two, three I'm going to get you Turn it into fantasy I'm going to ge- get you I'm going to do what you please Follow me
You'll want to hear about I'm on my feet until they bleed, saying
Give it to me I mean the cash Give it to me I want all of that Give it to me I said money From the start, no apologies
It's your name and it's on the fence Let's give in to the pretending
Give it to me I mean the cash Give it to me I want all of that Give it to me I said money From the start, no apologies
Give it to me Cash, cash, cash, cash Give it to me Cash, cash, cash, cash Give it to me Cash, cash, cash, cash From the start, no apologiesSOUNDS LIKE: A Perfect Circle - The Nurse Who Loved Me
TITLE: Eighteen (feat. Mariko Kobayashi) BY: Varanese Gallo & Mariko Kobayashi LENGTH: 4:30 GENRE: Post-industrial, experimental, electronica LABEL: Titanic RecordsEighteen is the song that Vara Gallo wrote with her best friend - and possible past occassional lover - Mariko Kobayashi. The flow from Seventeen into Eighteen is almost seamless, with us going straight from Vara with the dealer/the Hatter, buying the coke, and then immediately into her using it. While Vara Gallo is still the Vara/Alice character that we've known throughout the entire album, Mariko's character is also one that we've known the entire time as well: Her addiction. Mariko represents in this song the personification of Vara's coke addiction as Vara begins to fade in and out of consciousness as she overdoses. The lyrics in this song don't always make sense, using metaphors for a fish being life - much like in William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying - and Vara and her addiction singing together as she drifts farther away from the real world. The addiction is openly not a 'good' character in this album, as she repeatedly sings, "I'll dig my hands in," acknowledging that she has a hold on Vara that she isn't letting go of easily. Most of the song is Vara singing a confusing mess of thoughts that would simulate what a coke user would be thinking while they were under the influence, and then the chorus, which is Vara and Mariko singing together with Mariko's single solo line, "I'll dig my hands in," but this is one eeiry, almost terrifying moment of the song where Mariko sings, "Race me to defeat / Put it on repeat / I'm not done yet," claiming that while to the audience, this might seem like Vara has reached rock bottom, the addiction isn't through with her yet. Both Vara and Mariko's voice mesh so well together in the song that it's hard to tell who is singing when they are singing together, which is why the single line that Mariko sings alone in the chorus is so haunting and terrifying.Vara Mariko Both
Reeling me in, not afraid To treat me like a fish I can be smooth as I want to be But it's no guarantee That I'll be better than me Someday instead I'll just keep wanting you anyways And I'll be Be digging deep
Reel me in I'll give in Until I win Hold me up I'll dig my hands in Reel me in I'll give in Until I win Hold me up I'll dig my hands in
Keep to the surface You'll be A place that I can't breathe Not used to feeling Less than me Less than incomplete You know that I cannot drown But it's not safe to be found You throw me away And I'll be Be digging deep
Race me to defeat Put it on repeat I'm not done yet
Reel me in I'll give in Until I win Hold me up I'll dig my hands in Reel me in I'll give in Until I win Hold me up I'll dig my hands in
Reel me in I'll give in Reel me in I'll give in Hold me up, I'll dig my hands in
Reel me in I'll give in Until I win I'll give in Hold me up, I'll dig my hands in
Reel me in I'll give in Until I win Hold me up I'll dig my hands in Reel me in I'll give in Until I win Hold me up I'll dig my hands inSOUNDS LIKE: How to Destroy Angels - Is Your Love Strong Enough?
Edited by user 09 October 2013 01:15:00(UTC)
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