00:00 It's a kind of an idea for a song that was sort of like cooking in me, I guess, pardon
00:04 the pun.
00:05 This idea of sacrificing the future of other people for the sake of short-term gain.
00:11 This idea of where children become the ground for culture war, for adults to sort of use
00:25 as pawns in culture wars, especially when it comes to arms dealing.
00:29 Another school shooting and then another debate about gun rights, etc.
00:33 It's something that's quite alien to me coming from the place in the world that I am.
00:36 And I wanted the voice in the song to be that voice of power that shrugs off any responsibility
00:42 to any sort of future that anybody has.
00:45 "I'm starving, darling.
00:48 Let me put my lips to something.
00:50 Let me wrap my teeth around the world.
00:53 Start carving, darling.
00:54 I want to smell the dinner cooking.
00:57 I want to feel the edges start to burn."
00:59 There's a fun sort of mislead in those first few lines.
01:03 There's something that is potentially lustful in those lines or like literally about hunger.
01:09 I found the lyrics so grotesque in a way that there was nearly, there's a dark humor to
01:14 them as well.
01:15 "Honey, I want to race you to the table.
01:19 If you hesitate, the getting is gone.
01:22 I won't lie.
01:24 If there's something to be gained, there's money to be made, whatever is still to come."
01:29 It feels like we're in a kind of a race to the bottom at times.
01:31 What is the most I can extract out of something for the cheapest?
01:35 The place where that ends up are the challenges that a lot of people are living with now and
01:39 will be living with for the next 20, 30, 40 years.
01:43 "Get some.
01:45 Pull up the ladder when the flood comes.
01:48 Throw enough rope until the legs have swung.
01:51 Seven new ways that you can eat your young."
01:53 You know that sort of Buzzfeed article thing of like 15 new, you know, 15 things?
01:57 It's always an uneven number.
01:59 It's always seven or it's always 15.
02:00 So that's why it was seven.
02:02 I wanted it to sort of nod to that.
02:04 50 ways to leave your lover type thing.
02:06 "Come and get some.
02:07 Skinning the children for a wardrobe.
02:10 Putting food on the table.
02:11 Selling bombs and guns.
02:13 It's quicker and easier to eat your young."
02:16 Adults and people who are not long for this world are playing with the lives of children
02:22 and the futures of children for their own political ends.
02:25 It's oftentimes children are the ground in which that culture war takes place.
02:31 "You can't buy this fineness.
02:35 Let me see the heat get to it.
02:37 Let me watch the dressing start to peel.
02:40 It's a kindness, Highness.
02:42 Crumbs enough for everyone old and young are welcome to the meal."
02:46 CEO versus worker pay, right?
02:49 So one up here, one rising here.
02:54 Whatever is left is what everyone else enjoys.
02:56 So this idea of these crumbs that are left behind.
02:59 And old and young are welcome to the meal.
03:01 "Honey, I'm making sure the table's made.
03:05 We can celebrate the good that we've done.
03:07 I won't lie.
03:09 If there's something still to take, there is ground to break.
03:13 Whatever is still to come."
03:14 Ireland under colonial power, under colonial occupation, were sort of suffering under the
03:20 artificially created conditions of poverty.
03:22 They didn't have the right to own property, didn't have the right to vote, didn't have
03:25 the right to own a horse or speak in the Irish language.
03:28 Jonathan Swift wrote this really kind of grotesque argument that why don't we just start eating
03:32 them?
03:33 And it was, I mean, it was a critique of the attitude that people had towards Irish people.
03:37 It's little works like that that allow you to play with a song like this, play with the
03:41 themes a little bit.
03:44 What was super fun about this song was to write from the perspective of a voice that
03:49 really enjoys this, really relishes in this and celebrates this kind of thing.
03:53 And it's not my alignment, but to lean into it and explore it in a playful way, in a kind
04:00 of critical way, in a grotesque way, that was super fun.
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