#be born

Be Born - Chonny Jash Userboxes . Very self indulgent.

These mean whatever you want them to I just heavily relate to the lyrics

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What if I told you.. I believed the opposite??

Hate to be fanon divergent here (no I don't, this album's lore is 98% up to the listener) but I personally believe Be Born is MIND either

A. Having been mocked by HEART and is MIND arguing with him to himself after the argument while also projecting his insecurities onto HEART in this post-argument thing he's having with himself

B. MIND beating himself up over feeling "weak" and "undervalued" and being insecure, except he's also imagining HEART is mocking him so he can pin it on him later and have an excuse to keep up the charade of hating the emotional side (which I've mentioned in a previous post)

Either way, I firmly believe MIND is talking to himself, wallowing in his insecurities while also being like "No, I can't do this, this is what HEART would do. I'm not a weakling, I'm the guy who's supposed to be in charge." Even though I personally don't believe he is, and that's why I'm more inclined to believe this is HEART torturing MIND, whether or not it's actually just MIND putting himself down and then pinning it on HEART or not.

Regardless, I would also like to stand firm in the decision that Storm and a Spring is MIND projecting all his insecurities on HEART aswell, whether it be him venting after he has enough but also blaming it all on HEART, or if he's just straight up going "I feel like this but I'm gonna make it look like it's all you being a little bitchboy instead of me having mental health issues." I also believe the line "[For a man cloaked in daylight, you sure hate the sun]" is him being like "I've tried to help you, and yet you're treating me like a piece of shit" because I firmly believe being "cloaked in daylight" might be kinda like how people say the warmth of the sun is like a hug sometimes (or atleast that's how I perceive it)

TD;LR :

(Left this in drafts for a few days even after writing that part. Sue me.)

I've seen a lot of Be Born interpretations that I've really liked in the past, and mine's been a long time coming! Also! This isn't going to be backed up by lyrics like it might usually, this is just an idea of mine.

My explanation for Mind's glitches is the most interesting part about the interpretation. I like to think that every time he's speaking in that higher register, he's speaking as Soul. And not just when his voice glitches, either.

I think the entire song is Mind taking and twisting things Soul has said to the two of them to make them fit how he feels about Heart and how he perceives Heart. Perhaps they're things Soul has said in an attempt to get them to work together. Maybe Mind sees all of this as Heart's fault and is trying some sort of "You heard what he said" kind of deal.

Maybe it hits Heart harder BECAUSE it's things that Soul himself has said, and that's why Mind is twisting Soul's words so much. Maybe he thinks it'll snap Heart out of it if it's SOUL saying this to him instead of Mind, who is very obviously biased against him.

It kind of makes sense of how he refers to himself in the third person once or twice, too. But yeah.

In Short: Be Born is Mind taking things Soul has said and twisting them in a way that will paint Heart as the villain and the reason for all of their suffering.

Another interpretation I came up with while relistening to the song FOR THIS POST.

I think this song is yet another layer of nuance. Each time Mind glitches out, he sounds "normal". "Normal", as in he sounds like the other two, therefore like Whole (Chonny) himself.

Perhaps this puts emphasis on the fact that all those heavy layers of modulation and voice manipulation, it's still CHONNY singing.

Under all of those layers, Mind is hurting just as much as Heart and Soul. It doesn't matter how deep his voice is or how much he tries to set himself apart from the other two by being the cold, analytical, logical one; he's still suffering just like they are. And those changes in his voice - between something deep and imposing to something higher and emotional - are indicative of his state.

He lashes out, just like the other two do; because at the end of the day, as different as they are, they all make up the same person, do they not? Mind isn't some foreigner just because he sounds and acts different. He is part of their Whole. And their Whole is hurting. That doesn't just mean Heart and Soul suffer - Mind also suffers - and I think his voice glitching acts as a sort of reminder of that. A reality check, if you will.

I know I said that I wasn't gonna pull out lyrics for this but I lied because one particular one stuck out to me that backs up this interpretation.

"What if I told you, I am not the villain? What if I told you, you're the same as I? Half a hollowed person, ruled by his depression, cloaked by noise - in Mind and Heart - who split his voice into two parts."

"Half a hollowed person, ruled by his depression" comes RIGHT AFTER "You're the same as I". Mind is very obviously saying that he's suffering with the rest of them, and Heart (in his opinion) drowning in his own self-pity isn't helping in the slightest.