I really wanted to like it and see why you liked it. I have a degree in English, so form, style, art are all in my wheelhouse to a degree. If the message is important enough to own it, I often wonder why it has to be so convoluted or esoteric. Perhaps it comes, maybe unknowingly, from a vanity or elitism.

I couldn’t ever quite make out the words, which I think are important to the singer. Some music, I think, sort of disdains words and uses them just as one of the fibers of the piece, so I can understand that part, when it applies. But other times I think the artist is possibly mocking the audience who doesn’t get it. Tempting misinterpretation and—minimally—apathy. Maybe even unintentionally.

I looked up the lyrics to try harder, because I suspected there was something significant there. Same conclusion. Sometimes the message is so camouflaged that the pearl is generally ignored if not despised.

James Joyce spent 30 years writing a book in a language that literally only he understood. He created it. It must be some kind of mental condition. I might go as far as calling it an illness, and I know that many artists are tortured souls and quite angsty because nobody seems to get their insinuations. I think I even have it to a degree.

It is why I stopped writing poetry...

Sorry, you triggered a post of artistic ptsd in me. Probably should just delete this post.