Slow
BLACK MIDI Lyrics
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Slowly
Slowly
Just one more try
Slowly
Slowly
Cracking, snapping, little footsteps
Beaks all break
Slowly
Slowly
Searching
Still searching
Slowly it falls and slowly it dies
Slowly it crumbles right under my eyes
And takes so long
And I wonder
Just how long it took
To get there
To get there
I guess I'll wait
How much longer?
Any day
How much further
Must I wake?
I guess I'll wait
I guess I'll wait
I guess I'll wait
I guess I'll wait
Slowly falls, and slowly dies
Slowly crumbles right under my eyes
Slowly, slowly, slowly, slowly, slowly, slowly, slowly
Slowly
Stood up, shot
Between the eyes
Just consolation
Slowly
Slowly
Slowly
Slowly
Slowly
Slowly
Slowly
Slowly
Slowly
Slowly
The lyrics to "Slow" by black midi are cryptic and open to interpretation. The use of repetition of the word "slowly" suggests a feeling of time being stretched out and elongated. The lyrics could reflect feelings of frustration with how slowly progress is being made, or how slow things seem to be moving. The phrase "time winding down" could further convey a sense of urgency and impending doom.
The line "Just one more try" could refer to the idea of trying to make something work or fix a problem, despite previous attempts failing. "Cracking, snapping, little footsteps" could evoke the sound of something breaking or falling apart. "Beaks all break" is a bit harder to decipher, but it could possibly suggest a violent or destructive force at work.
The repetition of "searching" could suggest a feeling of aimlessness or being lost. As the song progresses, the repetition of "slowly it falls and slowly it dies" and "slowly it crumbles right under my eyes" adds to the sense of things falling apart and a lack of control over the situation. The phrase "and takes so long" reinforces the idea of time dragging on.
The final lines of the song express a sense of resignation and defeat. The repeated phrase "I guess I'll wait" suggests that the singer has resigned themselves to the slow process and is willing to wait it out.
Line by Line Meaning
Time winding down
Slowly
Slowly
As the clock ticks down, the pace of time seems to become even slower and slower.
Just one more try
Slowly
Slowly
One last chance is being taken at a snail's pace, filled with apprehension and hesitation.
I'm almost on my way
Cracking, snapping, little footsteps
Beaks all break
Slowly
Slowly
The journey has been a difficult one with every step being a challenge, yet slowly and steadily, progress is being made.
Searching
Still searching
Slowly it falls and slowly it dies
Slowly it crumbles right under my eyes
And takes so long
The search for something significant continues, but the process is slow and seems to drag on forever, and unfortunately, what is being sought is falling apart right in front of the searcher's eyes, slowly and painfully.
And I wonder
Just how long it took
To get there
To get there
I guess I'll wait
The length and difficulty of the journey to the destination are a source of curiosity and delay, leading to a resigned waiting.
How much longer?
Any day
How much further
Must I wake?
I guess I'll wait
The questions of how much of the journey remains and how much effort is still required to get there linger on, as resignation sets in and the waiting continues, no matter how long or how difficult it may be.
I guess I'll wait
I guess I'll wait
I guess I'll wait
I guess I'll wait
The persistence of waiting is reiterated four times, emphasizing the frustration and monotony of it all.
Slowly falls, and slowly dies
Slowly crumbles right under my eyes
Slowly, slowly, slowly, slowly, slowly, slowly, slowly
Slowly
The continuous repetition of the word 'slowly' emphasizes how painfully slow and drawn-out the declining situation and the resulting destruction is.
Stood up, shot
Between the eyes
Just consolation
Slowly
Slowly
Slowly
Slowly
Slowly
Slowly
Slowly
Slowly
Slowly
Slowly
A calming, painless end is being wished onto someone, and the mantra of 'slowly' is repeated ten times in a row to emphasize the prolonged nature of the wait for such an end.
Lyrics © DOMINO PUBLISHING COMPANY
Written by: Cameron Picton, Morgan Simpson, Geordie Greep
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@mattdrummond3552
Why are there no comments explaining wtf is happening? Pause at 2:44. I think this tells us most of the exposition. That the cartoon world ("Jerkhead") and the video game-looking world ("Fantastic Knight XI") are both simulation worlds generated by humans using technology. The woman appears to be a designer of these worlds. 2:46 her cracking the egg is symbolism/foreshadowing for deciding to destroy the simulation worlds (the "lower worlds"). She clearly is the one that put into action the end of the world for the Jerkhead and Fantastic Knight lower worlds. Then we see that Earth is going to succumb to some hellish planet's arrival. I'm not sure why the woman runs to what looks like the middle of nowhere - I think perhaps she's just out of options and decides to run, in despair, toward the cataclysm. As she runs through town she passes graffiti displaying "The end of a higher world is the end of our world", which I'd argue is the entire message of the music video. The dramatic live action sequence shows the graphic death of the woman (not sure why she needed to be disemboweled or if that choice was purely stylistic) and the end of Earth.
The end of the video (5:47): this is actually where the story starts. The cartoon hammers we see in the beginning and end turned out to have been Jerkhead destroying some important-looking egg-like object. I believe that object he destroyed contained the human universe somehow. I believe he's responsible for the end of Earth. The architecture in the room that houses that egg seems to have human imagery. It seems like Jerkhead's world is desolate and awful. Perhaps Jerkhead figured out that his world was a lower world and that the higher world (the human world) was completely responsible for the horrible world Jerkhead lives in. Figuring it all out, Jerkhead breaks into the sanctuary and destroys the egg-like artifact. He escapes and is chased by authorities, which is where the video then begins (0:00). I realize what I wrote here is a complete paradox, but it's all I've got. Is Earth/human world a simulation made from Jerkhead's world? Are both worlds simulated by each other, as impossible as that sounds?
0:35 the bird on Jerkhead's shoulder appears to represent the live action woman? Jerkhead then transforms into some red devil-looking form, but then sees the hellish planet and spontaneously rips apart and dies?
EDIT: 2:52 is important! The woman actually sees Jerkhead running with the hammer. Coupled with the fact that she's looking at a calendar as Cam sings "how much longer" makes me think that the woman KNOWS what Jerkhead has just done and why he's running. She knows that Jerkhead just set into action the end of Earth world. I get the vibe that the woman was trying to save Earth through programming somehow. Maybe she was trying to reverse time in the simulation and prevent Jerkhead from destroying the egg-like object (Earth). I think it's possible that the woman ended the simulations simply out of retribution against Jerkhead for sealing Earth's fate.
My interpretation of the Hell planet is that it's something we can't understand as it's a higher world. The end of a higher world is the end of our world. Since this singularity/hell planet is ending, so too are all of the simulations/lower worlds under it. Literally pulling this out of my ass at this point.
I think this entire video is phenomenal. What I love most about it is that every frame means something and is part of the story. There's so much detail but it's all important. I had to post some of my rantings because I'm really not seeing any in-depth comments about the story. I need answers dammit even if it means making a fool out of myself in the Youtube comments section.
@crognolius460
@@mattdrummond3552 This makes a lot of sense. It also links back to the grafitti "the end of a higher world is the end of our world" Perhaps the orb with the symbol of the black being that Jerkhead destroys is a higher world above the human one, setting a domino effect into motion where we see the hellish planet in multiple worlds.
The point you made on "deicide" makes me think that the black being is perhaps some sort of god. You see these white bird things with legs flying around it at 4:30, and it opens to reveal a much smaller version of the hellish planet. Perhaps it's a time loop like you originally said, where Jerkhead destroys the god/deity/black thing's world, so he releases the hellish planet things, which destroy the earth and the jerkhead worlds. This makes the breaking animation we see on screen near the end make some sort of sense.
I think this point of the black thing being god makes sense, as you can see a bright light that it emerges from at 4:17 which the angel thing flies into.
maybe the god things world isn't being destroyed, but it set into motion the destruction of the other worlds. I'm not fully sure.
*EDIT: in this i mean that the AI deicide made by the woman is created to kill the god, and she runs to see the hellish planet destroy earth as a result of what she's done. Perhaps she's not an antagonist but a "hero" who thought that earth was a sacrifice to destroy a malevolent god.
@pedrodias5166
So I analysed this in class with a student, and it seems to me that the music video is about the death of an artist (in metaphorical terms, failure of an artist), she has two posters of the two cartoons at the start and it was made with the software she is using, both cartoons/anime "died" with the coming of the planet, so the planet represents apocalypse which here is symbolic for end, for terminate. In artist terms, it's a scraped project (this is accentuated with her not saving her project, which coincides with the planet arriving, you can see the planet arrives in the knight cartoon as well because of the shadow in the building, so in a sense, she willfully terminates her projects which is represented by the planet, to the point that the failures of her projects end her will to keep being an artist, which is also represented with the planet, in real life) it's the lack of inspiration, the frustration of trying to make art succesfully.
The lyrics accentuate this as well:
"Searching
Still searching
Slowly it falls and slowly it dies
Slowly it crumbles right under my eyes
And it takes so long"
So when it comes to the artist you can see that she sees the news for the planet that is coming (again...apocalypse), on faux news, this is refering to the fact that it's fake, the planet is just symbolic for how she too will fade with the projects she scraped, self-doubt of her capacity as an artist makes her reconsider if this is something worth pursuing, and this is why she faces the same fate has her creations. The failure of her creations is the failure of herself as an artist.
In the end we can see Jerkhead looking at the egg she broke, and I guess this can represent that even if the artist parts, the art lives on? the egg itself I haven't identified the symbology but it could be related to the planet, or it represents the connection she has with the art.
Sorry, this was a bit flow of consciousness but I still wanted to share it.
@Joshoowa1
These guys came into my restaurant in the middle of nowhere today and I got the vibe they were a band. I asked what they were up to and Morgan told me they were black midi. Nice work, guys, you have a new fan.
@wallywutsizface6346
What did they order
@t.c.bramblett617
Were they carrying a piano
@Minyvan66
@John Oowa What were they like? And what's your restaurant called?
@rays5163
That's kind of a weird response given the question
@michaelb9537
@@rays5163 I’m pretty sure we’re just getting a summary. You were expecting a full transcript?
@TheRabidDolphin99
I think I'm losing aux cord privileges after this one but it will be worth it
@cinemaspire7258
Really? I don't see how anyone would not appreciate this track. So wonderfully layered
@Sighbot
It’s actually probably one of their more accessible songs.
@tarragon9030
If you’re listening to this you likely already have strained aux cord privileges