Should-know-better

Seven nights I been laying low

A wanted man for desertion

I crawled away from the killing zone

I wanna walk on the ocean

I wanna see in the dark

I wanna cause a commotion

And I know just where to start

Im a picky picky person who knows what they like and I use the filters liberally. But it's a pain to put it in every time I accidentally close my Ao3 tab or I wander into a new fandom. I'm well aware you can favourite a single tag, but I'm talking multiple tags included and excluded.

Thanks for your time and thoughts!

If you want to look up the same filtered tag again and again, the easiest way is to bookmark the results page. The URL has all of the filters in it, so reloading that URL will give you the latest results with all of the filters applied.

sidenote: it's possible to throw an error by applying too many filters just because it hits the max length of URL allowable by the browser

It allows you to search for something, add all your filters/exclusions you want on it and then save it, and then with one button have it tell you if there are any updates to that filter and how many. Really helps with rare things that get maybe one update a week and you're constantly refreshing them...

The reel

Hey, long time no see! Last weeks had been rough but I'm here with brand-new analysis. It was just out of my expectations how this song connects with A HUGE AMMOUNT of tlsp songs. Yes, I know that that specific one is a cover. But should be a reason why they chose it not only as a song to perform but also as the one to make a music video for?

As always, I can't even imagine what's going on in Alex or Miles mind so it's just my interpretation.

You were the promise at dawn

I was the morning after

Remember "And if you're bothered, I don't want your prayers. Save it for the morning after" from Teddy Picker? Really Miles-shaped (incredible @misskattylashes pointed an opportunity of Kane experiencing a catholic guilt in this post).

Also, according to Genius, can be meaningfully connected with "Do I Wanna Know"

You were Jesus Christ my Lord

I was the money lender

I personally like to think about these specific lines in context of crime fiction. Jesus Christ is a pure good while money lander in every gangster movie I've ever seen causes BIG troubles. Always portraited as the worst of all the bad guys

You were the sensitive woman

I was the very reverend Freud

Okey. Sensitive woman (?) means that she can be easy leaded by someone's ideas. But what about Freud? Sigmund Freud is a former father of psyhoanalysis. His analysis of dreams (dream synopsis) as wish fulfillments provided him with models for the clinical analysis of symptom formation and the underlying mechanisms of repression (proves my previous theory from line one).

The main tenets of classical psychoanalysis are as follows:

Human behavior, experience, and cognition are largely determined by internal and usually irrational drives;

attempts to understand these drives lead to psychological resistance in the form of defense mechanisms ("I’ve got this ego mechanic" from Pottion approaching has really similar meaning)

But why revended? Sigmund had really questionable ideas and methods. I think that it can hint us to Reverend Musical Instruments. Commonly known as Reverend Guitars, is an American manufacturer of electric guitars and basses. Turner compares himself as a musician to the famous psyhologist. Both too courageous with their ideas.

You were the manual orgasm

I was the dirty little boy

Manual means something which is made by instructions. Right, how it should be. Man+woman if you dare. While Alex, singing that song, is some kind of the tempting serpent.

And is this what you wanted

To live in a house that is haunted

By the ghost of you and me?

"I just wanted to be one of those ghosts you thought that you could forget" from Start treatment, extremely Milex song, talks about regret about for own actions. Turner is the only ghost there. While in "Is this what you wanted?" there are two ghosts. Someone who is invisible for audience (not for Milex fandom, through) but is clearly here, haunts the narrative since first AM album( I'm talking about you, "You probably couldn't see for the lights...").

The word haunted can also be connected with my beloved "Dracula Teeth" but EYCTE in general is really mystically-centered.

You were Marlon Brando

I was Steve Mcqueen

Genius sugests that these two can be included because of connections with mafia during their acting ages. And I really can't imagine why did Leonard Cohen chose them. But for you to know: Marlon Brando was clearly bisexual (confirmed publicly and wasn't ashamed of it) while Steve Mcqueen was always known as the main macho man of his time — similar to Alex during AM era, you know?

You were K.Y. Jelly

I was vaseline

Can I not comment on this line? Yes? Thank you

You were the father of modern medicine

I was Mr. Clean

So, my interpretation of these words is that the singer views himself only as a beautiful but useless picture while his partner is a hidden gem, genius. Knowing how Alex speaks loftily about Miles, it's really them-coded

You where the whore and the beast of Babylon

I was Rin Tin Tin

Let's discuss the Whore of Babylon.

...We know the Whore of Babylon is the High Priesthood because she wears “purple and scarlet” (the vestment colors of the Jerusalem priests) and she is adorned in precious stones. Outfit, as I see it, really similar to the one Miles wearing in "Is this what you wanted" mv.

The “Whore of Babylon” refers to how the Jewish priesthood has become a “whore” or “prostitute” providing her intimate services not to God but to pagan Rome. A widely regarded indication of whether a person was a pagan or a Christian was their partaking in ritual sacrifice. Not only the bloody mess but also sexual practices, when the gender of partner isn't the most important thing.

The end of Revelation 17 explain how the Beast will eventually turn on the Whore of Babylon and make her dead. The duality of throughts here: you want it but you should destroy that specific part of your personality.

Rin Tin Tin  was a male German Shepherd born in Flirey, France, that became an international star in motion pictures. The trained dog was an immediate box-office success and went on to appear in 27 Hollywood films, gaining worldwide fame. And yes, that's how the industry works. Not only for dogs but also for people celebrities: just train them right and there will be a goldmine.

While The whore and the beast of Babylon is something sublime, Tin Tin is just another entertainer

...You got old and wrinkled

I stayed seventeen

Another vampire problem, don't care, haha. But speaking seriously, this line can also be connected with fame. Throughout the song we can hear the singer speaking about his fate as a part of people's entertainment routine. So in their minds he'll always be "seventeen" (young) while his partner lives a normal live

You lusted after so many baby

I lay here with one

You defied your solitude

I came through alone

Spoke about Milex dynamic with some person and made a conclusion that it can easily be a discription of them. Of course none of us know how is was/is but let's accept that as a theory

You said that you could never love me

I undid your gown...

"Could never love" because of internal homophobia. But at the end of the day the singer knows what he wants and how to get it