Who are you if not beautiful
Glycol’s debut album, “Who Are You If Not Beautiful is a powerhouse collection of Meanjin’s underground sound piled together. The album takes you through a journey of mental pain, drug abuse, violent surroundings, abusive relationships, and the recovery journey behind it all. It aims to speak to the youth and the common problems the youth faces in the scene, but not just to bring reliability but clarity for how to continue, heal, and recover.
1. intro
Lyrics:
person 1) Fuck it, I mean how do any of us start off?
person 2) That’s true.
person 1) We are born, and from the second the light hits our eyes, we are given a name.
person 2) Yeah, it’s like our first form of identity is just put upon us.
person 1) no choice.
person 2) Ha, no fucking choice.
person 1) no nothing.
person 2) we are just put on this earth, witnessing all these things with our eyes, seeing all this crap. I swear man the shit i’ve seen, it just makes you like spiral, like question it all like diving.
person 1) diving down the rabbit hole.
person 2) Dude, right? and like, at some point I kinda resent my parents for putting me on this earth.
person 1) We all go through that, I think.
person 2) haha right? But like I dunno, I just like. I just feel stuck.
person 1) of course
person 2) like I just feel fucking stuck, and I start associating with the wrong people.
person 1) get into all sorts of crowds, find yourself with all these different kinds of people.
person 2) not the best people, and like I’ll tell them man, i’ll tell them so, I won’t go and like i’ll say it’s so but fuck man I can’t.
Person 1) Yeah, I understand. So what do you do?
person 2) huh I dunno. just gotta heal, on your own.
Person 1) Take the first step. blossom into something better.
Person 2) Yeah, like grow.
Person 1) Should we go get some food?
person 2) fuck yeah man.
person 1) Chuck on some music.
INTRO is the first track. on the album, the stepping stone, and the layout of everything that’s about to unfold. You follow a conversation between two people reflecting on their past tribulations, these past traumas about to be spilled out in full through the songs across the album.
2.NAME
Lyrics:
The sun all tastes, and this shit all tastes, and the sun all tastes. Alright now.
You’ll never know how far I’d go. The sun don’t talk, you don’t say!
HEY! HEY! HEY! HEY! HEY! HEY!
Outta the flames we’ve got to go! Into the womb we’ve got to go!
No time to waste, we’ve! Into the womb we’ve got to go! YEAH!
HEY! HEY! HEY! HEY! HEY! HEY!
The sun all tastes, and this shit all tastes, and the sun all tastes. Alright now.
You’ll never know how far I’d go. The sun don’t talk, you don’t say!
HEY! HEY! HEY! HEY! HEY! HEY!
Outta the flames we’ve got to go! Into the womb we’ve got to go!
No time to waste, we’ve! Into the womb we’ve got to go! YEAH!
HEY! HEY! HEY! HEY! HEY! HEY!
Outta the flames we’ve got to go! Into the womb we’ve got to go!
No time to waste, we’ve! Into the womb we’ve got to go! YEAH!
NAME is the first song of the album, coming smashing out of the gates. It follows the confusion of birth with lyrics often not being cohesive but more nodding to something to push that confusion, the song speaks on senses, the first gift they are given, each sentence often cutting off the next. The title “NAME” alludes to the first form of identity that is put upon you, your name, and that this is the story of finding identity.
3.your eyes
Lyrics:
Take your eyes and I’ll save this town.
And I’ll take your eyes, and I’ll save this town.
YOUR EYES! YOUR EYES! YOUR EYES!
Impass the bomb, it’s all okay.
Impass the bomb, it’s all okay.
Impass the bomb, it’s all okay.
Impass the bomb, it’s all okay.
Take your eyes and I’ll save this town.
And I’ll take your eyes, and I’ll save this town.
YOUR EYES! YOUR EYES! YOUR EYES!
Impass the bomb, it’s all okay.
Impass the bomb, it’s all okay.
Impass the bomb, it’s all okay.
Impass the bomb, it’s all okay.
LETS GO!
YOUR EYES takes you through the feeling of experiencing the world in all its beauty and horror. Your eyes are your most powerful sense, and what you see and witness will stick with you.
4. DIVE
Lyrics:
I’m selling the keys, though. Indefinite seats, though. Fibonacci sequence.
spiraling mind 3 to the 5.
So take a seat, though, to the believers. believers’ belief, though.
spiraling mind 3 to the 5.
aye to see if you know, the truth it holds, the truth untold
hell yeah.
DIVE! x7
I’m selling the keys though, counting the teeth though. Seeing if it’s real or not.
spiraling mind 3 to the 5.
Is it better to kill or? Is it better to believe? Is it better to believe or not?
spiraling mind 3 to the 5.
aye to see if you know, the truth it holds, the truth untold
hell yeah.
DIVE! x7
I’m selling the keys, though. Indefinite seats, though. Fibonacci sequence.
spiraling mind 3 to the 5.
DIVE is a song about trying to find the meaning to life, after all you have seen with your eyes, all you want is a reason for the madness, inherently, it ends up making you spiral more. The more you think about it, the more you don’t understand.
5. VEGEM!TE
LYRICS:
I can never believe that you never wanna see, and I don’t wanna.
And you can never believe that I don’t wanna see and I don’t wanna.
And I can never believe that you don’t wanna see, and I don’t wanna
And you can never believe that I don’t wanna see and I don’t wanna.
It’s okay! It’s okay! It’s okay!
I can never believe that you never wanna see, and I don’t wanna.
you can never believe that I don’t wanna speak and I don’t wanna.
And I can never believe that you don’t wanna see, and I don’t wanna
And you should never have conceived, and I don’t wanna be, and I don’t wanna.
It’s okay! It’s okay! It’s okay!
VEGEM!TE is homage to the Australian tradition of passing down this spread family and generation to generation, as the song is a retaliation to resenting being born or being put on this earth, leaving the unfinished line at every sentence. “i don’t wanna” only on the last line is it said “i don’t wanna BE”. its a direct anger towards their parents saying you should never have conceived me as if living with all this pain is to much and it would be better to cease existing.
6. stuck
LYRICS:
I wanna be something more than I am. Horse pills for those who couldn’t care less.
Your fear of looking dumb is holding you back. We were born in your world.
But you will die in,
OURS!
So darken your eyes and sharpen your knives, and run it along your thighs, and bleach your mind you're so nice I needa get high again but I’m stuck.
I wanna be something more than I am. Horse pills for those who couldn’t care less.
Your fear of looking dumb is holding you back. We were born in your world.
But you will die in,
OURS!
So darken your eyes and sharpen your knives, and run it along your thighs, and bleach your mind you're so nice I needa get high again but I’m stuck.
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