Dogs
Llips. vs. Starfish Pool Lyrics

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I'm going to break my legs in silence
In the house
In the field
Where we left you to die

In your bedroom with your music at one hundred
Necessity is leaving me
Remember I'm going to get up and go to work

To an office in the mountains

Calculations of destruction with computers
The alarm clock acts as mother
The effects of a system that keeps looking down upon intuition
Pull yourself out of the gutter

Motherfucker
When you're bleeding
And it feels just like your bleeding
She was seventeen and she was a baby

She was a baby when she was just seventeen
But it's a ghost town
Ghost town face down
In the belly of a whale

This machine makes many machines to move upstream
And a swarm
Blood borne pathogens
You made in mind you'd change the cars up

Well I got home but you really got home

Overall Meaning

The lyrics of Llips. vs. Starfish Pool's song Dogs may seem cryptic and hard to understand at first glance. However, upon closer inspection, it becomes clearer that the song is talking about a number of themes, including the destructive nature of technology, the loss of innocence, and the struggle for control over one's own life.

The opening lines, "I'm going to break my legs in silence / In the house / In the field / Where we left you to die," suggest a sense of abandonment and betrayal. The singer seems to be in a dark place emotionally, perhaps as a result of some past trauma. The next line, "In your bedroom with your music at one hundred," contrasts this silence with the noise of the outside world, a cacophony that the singer seems unable to escape.

The lyrics then shift to the idea of work, with the singer describing a job in an "office in the mountains." The lines "Calculations of destruction with computers / The alarm clock acts as mother / The effects of a system that keeps looking down upon intuition" suggest that this work is soul-crushing and that the singer feels trapped by the demands of society. The final lines, "Pull yourself out of the gutter / Motherfucker / When you're bleeding / And it feels just like you're bleeding," suggest a sense of defiance, a willingness to fight against the forces that are trying to bring the singer down.

Overall, Dogs is a dark and brooding song that touches on a number of important themes. By exploring these themes, Llips. vs. Starfish Pool have created a song that is both thought-provoking and emotionally resonant.

Line by Line Meaning

I'm going to break my legs in silence
I'll hurt myself without making a sound

In the house
Inside the building

In the field
On the grounds outside

Where we left you to die
The place where you were abandoned and left to perish

In your bedroom with your music at one hundred
Your room shaking with loud music

Necessity is leaving me
I'm losing my need to do something

Remember I'm going to get up and go to work
Don't forget I have to leave for my job

To an office in the mountains
My workplace is located high up

Calculations of destruction with computers
Using machines to figure out how to cause damage

The alarm clock acts as mother
The device wakes you up like a parent

The effects of a system that keeps looking down upon intuition
The results of a mechanism that disregards people's instincts