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Is it ever gonna be enough? | a mix for se + mw

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I can't explain a thing I want everything  To change and stay the same oh time  Doesn't care about anyone or anything

yeah and you immortal little shits would know

Come together Come apart

did somebody say codependent asshole brothers

Only get lonely when you read the charts And oh baby, when they made me, they broke the mold

i mean yeah you were literally made inhuman by a genie, Nice

Girls used to follow me around then I got cold  Throw your cameras in the air

i wish i had better analysis for the camera motif because i know it's there somewhere - the best i can do is cameras and photos are essentially holders of memory, of which the brothers have an absurd amount in their minds and quite a lot forgotten, too, that they will probably never get back.

And wave them like you just don't care I will never believe in anything again I will never believe in anything again

over thousands of years i can only imagine their faith in...well, everything has been shattered. they're too old for god, for man, for government. if they ever believed in it why should they now? besides, they ARE gods in essence - it wouldn't even surprise me if they've come across small churches or cults in their honor.

Though change will come Oh change will come I will never believe in anything again We will never believe again Kick drum beating in my chest again

does a heartbeat still feel like a heartbeat after 2000-something years?

We will never believe again Preach electric to a microphone stand I'm a mascot for what you've become

i like this lyric as some sort of call-out from se to mw i don't even know how much that makes sense but just. "i'm a mascot for what you've become." i'm the poster boy of the chaotic life that you put on both of us

I love the mayhem more than the love

I can ride my bike with no handlebars No handlebars No handlebars I can ride my bike with no handlebars No handlebars No handlebars

obviously there isn't a whole lot to talk about here because it's the chorus and basic but i also think it starts off a very innocent, basic premise: little boys showing off for their mothers or friends, essentially; harmless little tricks they know, which kind of sets a precedent for how childish they are.

Look at me, look at me Hands in the air like its good to be Alive and I'm a famous rapper

'like' it's good to be alive more like we have been alive for so long we cannot die we must go on

Even when the paths are all crookedy I can show you how to dosey doe I can show you how to scratch a record I can take apart the remote control And I can almost put it back together

i like this idea that their powers are somehow limited. they can bend the world to their will, but are they really truly omnipotent??

I can tie a knot in a cherry stem

this is probably going to sound strange as fuck but i associate the brothers (particularly mw) with sexuality, namely because of the intense sensations related to it, which makes this interesting because of the idea that if you can tie a knot in a cherry stem with your tongue you somehow have extra prowess with kissing or something

I can tell you about Leif Ericson I know all the words to "De Colores" And "I'm proud to be an American" Me and my friends saw a platypus Me and my friends made a comic book

first off who are ur friends lol (*cries*) they, together, have manipulated and shaped the world into an almost cartoonish version of itself. they made THE WORLD a comic book

And guess how long it took I can do anything that I want 'cause look I can keep rhythm with no metronome No metronome No metronome I can see your face on the telephone On the telephone On the telephone

the bragging gets a little bit more exaggerated here with lines up with their fall from grace, if you will: they can do things that fuck with reality. it is physically impossible to see a face on a telephone. but they can, if they want. Look at me, look at me Just called to say that its good to be Alive in such a small world

it's good to be alive more like we have been alive for so long we cannot die we must go on

I'm all curled up with a book to read I can make money open up a thrift store I can make a living off a magazine I can design an engine 64 miles to the gallon on gasoline I can make new antibiotics I can make computer survive aquatic Conditions I know how to run the business And I can make you wanna buy a product Movers shakers and producers Me and my friends understand the future

*control the future

I see the strings that control the systems I can do anything with no resistance 'cause I can lead a nation with a microphone With a microphone With a microphone

even without their magic havok powers just think about how fucking manipulative and smooth-talking they can be???

And I can split the atoms of a molecule Of a molecule Of a molecule Look at me, look at me Driving and I won't stop And it feels so good to be alive and on top

this sort of freaks me out because of the continued repetition of 'good to be alive'. the vocals of the song continue to be apathetic as all hell but here it finally seems, to me, more like an honest admission that it is good to be alive. it wasn't, then, but now they they have Everything, they can finally sort of enjoy endless life again. until they get bored.

My reach is global My tower secure

who the hell is going to stand up to them?

My cause is noble

i've always found this really interesting because of their lack of a real cause beyond havok and curing their own boredom. do they regard that cause as noble or have Secret Other Goals? is it a callback to earlier days when perhaps they DID have one?

My power is pure I can handout a million vaccinations Or let em all die from exasperation

in my head this is just one of the brothers utterly breaking down. i can do anything. life hardly matters, i can control all of it. they begin to realize that there really are no rules for them and this adrenaline is powerful and dangerous.

Have 'em all healed from their lacerations Or have em all killed by assassination I can make anybody go to prison Just because I don't like them

continued breakage, although now with a more active attitude: with vaccinations it was simply apathy, but here they are considering going out of their way to harm other people.

I can do anything with no permission I have it all under my command because I can guide a missile by satellite By satellite By satellite And I can hit a target through a telescope Through a telescope Through a telescope And I can end the planet in a holocaust In a holocaust In a holocaust In a holocaust In a holocaust In a holocaust

honestly i have very little to say about this - it speaks for itself, mostly, though the mild increase in the singer's energy is really intriguing to me in the context of mw and se because of how rarely they show emotion or lose their composure.  I can ride my bike with no handlebars No handlebars No handlebars I can ride my bike with no handlebars No handlebars No handlebars

vi analyzes the original brothers mix: a table of contents bc these posts will get long

HANDLEBARS

(COFFEE'S FOR CLOSERS)

ASPIRING FIRES

I CAN'T DECIDE

DON'T MESS WITH ME

KILLER

GOLD GUNS GIRLS

HOLLOW

BROTHER'S BLOOD