Snakeskin
Shedding Snakeskin: Embracing Transformation and Liberation
Lyrics
Looking for forgiveness
Expressing a desire for forgiveness
I ran into your madness
Encountering a state of madness or chaos
Shutting off my brain just to spite my heart
Choosing to ignore rational thinking to follow emotions
You're slithering, slithering, slithering into my heart yea
Describing someone entering the speaker's heart with a serpentine quality
You're changing, changing my, changing my, changing my mind yea
Indicating a transformative influence on the speaker's thoughts
I'm shedding, I'm shedding, I'm shedding, I'm shedding my snakeskin
Symbolizing a shedding of old, negative aspects (snakeskin)
You're wearing it, wearing it, wearing it every day yea
Noting the influence of the person wearing the discarded negativity
Buy my expensive, exclusive, pain wear
Offering painful experiences as a high-priced commodity
My fine couture is your branded repayment
Linking personal suffering to a branded form of repayment
I tear my soul into two so that you can
Symbolizing a sacrifice of the speaker's well-being for someone else
Pretend despair
Highlighting the performative nature of emotional distress
Like a snakeskin, like a snakeskin
Repeatedly comparing the negative experience to shedding snakeskin
Like a snakeskin, like a snakeskin
-Like a snakeskin
-Like a snakeskin
-Wear me out and tear me down like
Inviting the person to use and discard the speaker
Rip, rip, rip, rip, rip, rip
Describing a destructive process of tearing down the other person
I'll tear you down like
-Strip, strip, strip, strip, strip, strip
-So run before I
-Bit, bit, bit, bit, bit, bit
-And make you all
-Addicted, addicted
Creating an addiction to the speaker's negative influence
Addicted to my snakeskin
-Rip, rip, rip, rip, rip, rip
Continuing the theme of tearing down and addiction
I'll tear you down like
-Strip, strip, strip, strip, strip, strip
-So run before I
-Bit, bit, bit, bit, bit, bit
-And make you all
-Addicted, addicted
Emphasizing the addictive nature of the speaker's influence
Addicted to my snakeskin
-Buy my expensive, exclusive, pain wear
Reiterating the concept of offering personal pain as a commodity
My fine couture is your branded repayment
-I tear my soul into two so that you can
-Pretend despair
-Like a snakeskin, like a snakeskin
Repeating the analogy of shedding snakeskin to convey the cyclical nature of the toxic relationship
Like a snakeskin, like a snakeskin
-Like a snakeskin
-Like a snakeskin
-Wear me out and tear me down like
Encouraging the person to use and discard the speaker
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