I keep seeing people talking about provider and I will say it once again, that song feels like Vessel being desperate. Trying to change himself for a person who doesn’t want the real him. Who only wants to have a part of him. In this case, the sexual aspect. He is fitting himself into a shape that isn’t *right* (no disrespect to anyone who found it sexy and fun btw) it’s uncomfortable, it feels wrong. Until we hit the part where he sings “your fingers, foxtrot on my skin.” Annnnnd that. When we hear “our bodies converse like old friends.” That.
That is where the real Vessel is again. His romantic words, his ache. His need for this to work out. The real depths of his emotions. They are so far from shallow. But he wants it to work out so badly (this time) he sings. This time. He will make it work. It’s desperate, it’s wanting to be the provider, the sexy lust-filled person that his lover wants. And it does not feel like the Vessel we know. And I think that is so on purpose. (Or maybe he just had fun writing a sexy song lol.)
