Translate Me
Translate Me
Serialising the album Status by @meljoann:
Track 7
“The lyrics of this song contain many actual weird, sexist things that music industry types have said to me – as does ‘Obscure’. They really believe they see the objective truth (which also happens to personally enrich them) and you are just some eejit that needs to be moulded into a sellable product. So, in this song I’m begging them to ‘translate me’ into this hyper-capitalist normative dialect they all speak, so I can make some feckin’ subsistence money.
Not really, though.”
– Quote by Meljoann in an article for The Thin Air
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Lyrics
I got a nice kinda
Meat-winder
Beat-grinder
Bricks, mortar
Bluebird fire, nice guy
He speedboat,
I tread water
If I was a guy who don’t need a translator
They do the school for me
They do my business for me
You know those guy with their whims on their fly
Just chilling by that pool
Translate me, baby
Got to translate me baby
I’m not complaining
Got to translate me
Cause I can’t be free
I got a earth-slider
Chin-stroker
Man-eater
Twitch-farmer
Ticket-master
Ad-viewer
Search-poison
Bot war, like Gibsonian
We had to try
Decode the nice guys
Cheap mouth,
cigar hanging out
of the side
Take me to
castle in the sky
So sly, cry
Every time
I got a great image
Stuck to me
Coverage is
Unrevealing
Bird vagina
Gown, evening
Ape performing
Novelty segment
I’m breaking
For you
For you
It bad
Even in translation,
It bad
