Songs I Love!

I adore the music video for this song so much, but I also often listen to this version, which ends in a slightly different way.

Um, listen, I was very normal about this song when I found it, mkay?

Alright, aside from my simping, I really love how fast-paced the video is. I also love the aesthetic of a smooth goth man slowly getting gritty and grimy in the sand, and oh god all those lovely silhouette-friendly poses are pure stim fuel. ❤️ And I love the lyrics, partially for their actual meaning, but also because the first time I heard it and didn't hear the context around the chorus, my brain just assumed "I come with knives" meant "I'm here to fuck someone up and rescue someone else." I might've still been in a certain mood that my next song put me in..

BRO, LOOK AT THAT ALBUM COVER! So cool, so art! 8O

Okay, so this song means a lot to me. There's an artist I like who has been through some truly awful things, and who drew a comic that used lyrics from this song, and the comic itself hit me SO hard.

Art by Ang.

Awhile later, things got much worse for Ang and I was really upset when I saw the last messages they had posted on their Twitter account. After years of relentless targeted harassment, they posted desperate wishes for death, and then disappeared for around four months, which felt a lot longer to me. One day, I just... noticed new art from them on Twitter, and my heart just... SWELLED. I rushed to their profile to find that they were still alive, and had come back with the help of a friend, to share their art despite having been beaten down so hard for that very art. The level of relief and joy I felt cannot be overstated.

That was when I went back and actually listened to the song from their comic, and it filled me up with this bright, overwhelming excitement. Ang was back! After everything, they were still fighting! And that was just... fucking beautiful. I had grown so used to seeing people driven off the internet for good after being targeted for ~art crimes~ and this was such an unexpected turn.

Then I paid more attention to the lyrics, and found these to be particularly powerful:

When a bastard child's
The price of showing skin
And consequence evades him
Don't tell me she's in the wrong
I've heard enough of that song
Come out of the dark and show him
How he's sinned, tear him limb from limb
I will not stand idly by
And watch my sister cry

I was so inspired by these lyrics that I drew some art of my persona protecting Ang's, because YES, the type of people who did this to them should be torn to fucking SHREDS, and no one should EVER blame a victim of abuse for being victimized!!

If I had the power, if I had the ability, if I had the reach, the money, anything: I would stand directly in front of not just Ang, but every other victim of this type of horrendous bullying, and I would protect them with everything I had. But, well... I'm not actually a green person with superpowers. Drawing myself as such helps with the feelings, though. And it is how I feel.

I hope this section wasn't out of line to post here. I'm not trying to be an obsessive whiteknight or somethin, this just happens to be what this song means to me, and I think it's going to stay that way. So... that's "Third Degree" by Coral Bones.

My best friend showed this amazing video to me after my friends and I finished watching Arcane together, and I remember feeling emotional about the lines about tearing up at a funeral, but I'm gonna be honest, I need to go draw something or I'm gonna lose it, so I'll finish this one later.

I remember sitting and listening to this song and then glancing up and there's a MYSTERIOUS SHIRTLESS MAN GETTING WET! Eheheheh! Genuinely, though, I love the visuals in this one. I always like Chris' lovely face, of course, but the other man performing was very welcome too. His body is beautiful, and I enjoyed his exaggerated expressions. The third performer pulled off such a delightfully creepy vibe with the smiling face paint. I loved the flashes of that to pull me into something of a surreal world before they would show the man or the baby again.

My favorite thing about IAMX's "Happiness" is the different ways he says, "Liars" throughout the song.

In the first set, he says it relatively softly, and his voice only BARELY cracks in the third utterance, which invokes the idea that he's losing his innocence in that moment, realizing for the first time that he's being lied to, and expressing pain—maybe betrayal—because of it.

In the second set, he comes out swinging, his first utterance powerful and condemning, with the next two even more so. And it feels good to listen to and mimick, letting out a RAGE that the first set doesn't have.

I love them both and I adore this song. 🤍

I drew this inspired by it, though it ended up looking more like Kibitzer was being yelled at rather than screaming it themself out of frustration like Chris does in the song.

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INSOMNIA IS SO FUCKING SAD OKAY

LISTEN

I literally cant't give actual details on this site because the character that this song is about is top secret!!

But this song very closely fits along with the plot of a roleplay I did with my friend in which her character (the top secret one) is captured and used for something terrible, and my character, who was already in a relationship with him, is so devastated and just wants to save him.

They desperately spend every second they're allowed with him, talk him through the abuse that they can't stop, sing to him at night to help soothe him, and they have to reassure him that they think no less of him because of his defeat. They love him and no one is going to replace him, and they're going to save him.

The song is told from his point of view, so make of that what you will since this is all I can say! :3