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tyler NOT singing ‘east is up’ we r so cooked guys xxx

so uh i just came up with this and i don't know if it will make a lot of sense, but you know how there's that lyric in mulberry street where tyler goes “get out of our way, we’re moving sideways” IT GOT ME THINKING

so traditionally we view east as to the side, and that may be how the bishops see it too (north=front east=side south=back west=other side) but we know from natn east is up and that the banditos leave dema at true east, not east-east.

what if the bishops made tyler say that to try and tell the banditos “we know about you, and how you take people out of our city” ?

ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THINGS it could also be tyler messaging the people of dema to leave dema to the east, where trench is.

i. In its construction, Dema- back then, a sandcastle of many names, was a pinnacle of efficiency. Models and calculations, faultless dreams of a mathematician, someone who believed the chaos of outer space is but to become order. 

(the closest star was not amused, as it only shone brighter)

ii. In its birthing days, Dema- back then, a place of many opportunities, was a rapid, striking success. Drafts became concrete, and first voices, before only imagined, filled in the halls. They spread, they reached out their stranded hungry hands; so, the homes happened. 

(and hospitals, and schools, and stores, and slaughterhouses, and and and)

iii. Dema- back then, a meaningless word, came to life. 

(when it was never supposed to be) 

(mother of sufferers) 

iv. And so it was said, the building – done. He dreamt of things to never change again, he believed he was graced with the knowledge of turning wilderness of people into something practical.

v. And they hid in their homes, feared for their inefficient lives.

vi. It can't be! He cried out in a place with stuffed meaning, unspoken; as the sun dimmed and dimmed, and dimmed until no more was it close. 

vii. It can't be- the change he tried to avoid. He came back and forth, with a hand and a sword, emptying every surface of what he deemed chaotic.

viii. It leaked through.

(it always did, and it hurt; and the star burned his skin, a scourge unto his blackened hands)

(abomination, you will be marked forever)

ix. From morgues in hospitals, stores and houses he built a wall.

x. In its downfall, Dema- back then a grave stepped in, was a cover upon choking subtlety. He built a wall of what the people have made, after him, of course.

xi. Abomination of guilt. Abomination of misunderstanding.

(he had choices taken away from him for he said he's stronger than his maker)

FROM NICO AND THE NINERS