Tomiko Hiko

100 Days of Music

Day 006: Pierce The Veil - The New National Anthem

Of Mice & Men - Sao Paulo/Brazil

"…It’s kind of specifically about physical connection, temporary physical connection…it’s about sex, I guess, but I think it could have been about multiple things. It could have been about over saturation, immersing yourself. Like becoming obsessed with your occupation, or a hobby, or a drug or alcohol. It’s kind of just about anything you use to numb who you are to escape the problem temporarily. That song is about debating whether or not it’s effective to use that as a coping mechanism to just drown things out, or is that as faulty as leaving completely because you never really take care of the problem…

The end of that song kind of comes to the conclusion that there’s nothing wrong with that necessarily, there’s nothing inherently wrong with doing something just for fun, for that temporary escape, but ultimately it doesn’t compensate for something deeper. It doesn’t give you a purpose in the way that whatever it was that he lost did. That whole chunk of songs is about trying to find a solution to the problem, but looking in the wrong places.”

La dispute - Abroken Jar