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S10E4 - BOYFRIEND / RUNNING OUT OF TIME by Tyler, The Creator

2022-11-08

Our season-long analysis of Tyler, The Creator's IGOR continues with "BOYFRIEND" - a song released as the fourth track only on the physical versions of IGOR - before breaking down the beautiful ballad "RUNNING OUT OF TIME."

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They say we examined egos third track. I think they're we heard tyler falling both falling in love and collapsing, as he struggled to express his feelings to crush you're full of being abandoned or scaring him away. We also tyler increasingly frustrated with the lack of communication from the guy. In general, forcing him to guess of the feelings or mutual I think than with a beautiful piano ultra that transitions directly into eagerness next track the interlude exactly what you run from you end up chasing, the exactly what you run from you end up chasing like you can't avoid, but just chasing it and just like trying giving it everything that you can. an obstacle like every transition from song, the song on the outside. Thus far the end of I think blend seamlessly into the start of the interlude. In this instance, tyler uses
instrumentation and harmony to thread. The tracks together. Both prominently feature the piano So when we hear the last cord of I think followed by the first quarter, interlude feels like the natural continuation of the core progression almost immediately. We hear the voice of comedian writer and director gerard car Michael, who enters as the My narrator or guide will hear from car michael intermittently throughout eager and brief, but pony quotes that help advance the narrative and signposts the magic concepts being explored. Tyler's creative relationship with drug car michael, is somewhat extensive. At this point, teller composed music for droids hbo spa. oh, how videos dried was consulting writer on on future show loiter squad and rod was in stood as the interviewer and toddlers official self produce flower by interview, while the two seemed was and clearly admire each other's work. It's possible that tyler specifically chose draw
as every narrator, because he's had personal experiences similar to those addressed on the album, namely grappling with his own sexuality and the difficulty of communicating it to those around him It is most recent special rough annual drawn publicly came out, gay, while sharing the difficulty of doing so with his family and even himself, he said quote: my ego wants to rebel against it. I rebelled against it. My whole life, I thought I'd never ever come out At many points I thought I'd rather die. They confront the truth of that to actually say it to people, because I know it changes some people's perceptions of me. I can't control that, as will come to see drugs own difficulty in communication and self acceptance serve as an app parallel to the struggle centred and ignores narrative, making its presence on the album a perfect thematic match. He begins by stating exactly what you run from you end up chasing First we noticed the continued development of eagerness, movement or travel motif, be writing skating, dancing shaking follow.
and now running and chasing, but now we get insight into what keeps tyler in such constant motion he's going around in circles chasing the thing he's running from Ironic loop actually foreshadows the entire structure of the alps narrative, but in this moment it feels like it is, option of the dynamic between tyler and his crush, evoking their hesitancy or inability to articulate their feelings to each other does an implicit fear and the concept as running from something is to avoid it. Yet the feelings are persistent and become unavoidable and the very thing you feared actually becomes the desired destination dry. Continue saying like you can't avoid, but just chasing it and just trying giving it everything that you can. There is always an obstacle. The seems to comment on tyler's
efforts of winning this guy over. While the vagueness of obstacle allows for multiple considerations and toddlers view, the immediate obstacle might be the guy's girlfriend, which, in a negative sense, seem symbolic of the guys fear of deviating from hetero nor maternity and all the potential consequences of doing so well. Tyler seems ready to go his crushes, all the guys, clearly conflicted and thus another obstacle that will appear in the next song is time that is running out. But before getting to that song, we have to acknowledge that the interlude we just heard is actually taken from a falling song called boyfriend that was cut from the streaming version of eager. Luckily, tyler included the track on the physical release placed forth in the trackless reply. Seeing the exactly. What you run from interlude complements this The it was natural to do not by you
but it is but a man now, while we are doing a full dissection of boyfriend, is worth running through the song and pulling out some of its more relevant lyrics, beginning with the, inter, we just heard, performed by charlie wilson your praising how natural his love for us crush feels tyler through trolley wilson says I can't buy the world, but my time is yours time here is offered as time. most valuable possession, is a similar analogy he made on, I think, when he said, waster bread. I need your attention if time is money and brightest slang for money there without this guy's attention. Tyler's time is wasted.
Contrast, his own certainty, with his crutches ambiguity, saying I'll, let you roll the dies, but I've made my choice in this game of chance. Tyler's put his money down he's ready to commit, despite the risks. Meanwhile, his crush rules, the dice his indecisive near compared to the uncertainty of dice roll, like the flip of a coin, is little more than a guess, he's leaving thing the chance before the drums kick in a pitched up, tyler, so
baby you gotta understand: ain't, no time to play these games, you hear me calling back to his crush rolling the dough tyler once again urgently emphasizes the value of his time in gross frustrated about wasting it. On games of chance, meanwhile, the lack of communication between these two continues with tyler asking you hear me once again implying a disconnect between them an obstacle causing interference. Then we hear the beginning of the tracks refrain as tyler interjected between the artist santa gold chanting, hey hey and say say she begins that shit as money now once again relating time and money, perhaps attempting to convince his crush that this isn't a game of chance. Their love is easy money. It's a certainty. He continues we're getting funky fuck what they say we should be together. Importantly, tyler here says fuck what they say confirming our suspicions that at least part of his crushes his entity is the fear of outside judgment and persecution about being in a same sex relationship.
tyler steadfast readiness to commit to give it everything he has is then continued into the songs. Her home John was tyler articulated desires as clearly as possible, repeating over and over. I want to be your boyfriend between this reform and he interjection I'm trying to be more than a friend my heart's on the run cause you are the one nato understand once again, tyler is clearly developing motifs. As my heart's on the run
he knew the running motif while data understand is another implication that fear of outside judgment is an obstacle on the road. This relationship is running on tyler, closed out the course saying, cuban link with the hand and tell you what's up, but its damaging cause we this same cuban link with the hand, seems to use chain links and jewelry to imply his desire to hold this guy's hand, a classic symbol of togetherness and done most often in public, showing tyler's willingness to formalize this bond despite the potential of persecution. Meanwhile, the final couplet- and I tell you what's up, but it's damaging cause- seems to imply that tyler's, formal request of being his boyfriend hasn't actually happened in real life, as we heard on both the earthquake, and I think tyler is hesitant to express his desires due to a fear of abandonment, of pressuring the guy and having him run away. Thus, they are destined to dance around the topic, each of them harbouring fear.
And running encircled, one between repetitions of boyfriends, frame, tyler inserts a brief bridge, saying I invested too much time I done spent all my money is the third time song tyler is related time and money. The use of the word invested once again implies his commitment, as opposed to his crushes gambling. Toddlers resources are depleted, the running out of time, and thus tyler ass. You need to read between the lines. The topic tends to sit funny or tellers made his It is clear in the song they earnest clear in real life as any formal disk another relationship is damaging intends to sit funny, so tyler asked him to between the lines which is to comprehend, based on implication, as opposed to things explicitly stated. As we heard
I think the grey area and lack of communication leads tailored to frustration, which is reflected in the songs outer section, with a piano chords of the intro return, Charlie Wilson sings, backup, vocals and tyler sings two lines simultaneously and stereo one pan left. one pound right to close out the sullen tyler cross, bahama fauna, couplet. That could be heard two ways in the left speaker. He repeats guessing dont, be guessing while the right speaker, he repeats I've, seen all your cards, this caps off the songs, gambling motif and the crushes indecisive, guessing the phrase I've seen
All of your cards is a plan. The poker phrase show your cards just come to mean making once intentions or ideas known to others, especially those previously kept secret, tyler's implying an indian see between them and his knowledge of the complete version of this person, otherwise kept hidden from the world. However, the official lyric sheet, boyfriend transcribes easily arcs as dont be gassing me up. I've seen all of your cars. This hearing of the couplet aligns perfectly with eagerness travel money, while the meaning of I've seen all your cars feels the same as cards. Dont be gassing me up. Presses, more of tolerance, frustration, sick being led on with empty compliments that go nowhere. Tyler wants to get the place to reach the destination. He wants to be his boy for the exactly what you run from you end up chasing like you can't avoid, but just chasing it and just like trying giving it everything that you can, as always in
the tail end of boyfriend contains the interlude we hear presented on track for vigour and surprise, surprise. The end blend seamlessly the beginning of the alps, next track. The subject of the remainder of our episode today running time is running out of time, was really produced by tyler coma. With additional background book was provided by Jesse wilson, the song features beautiful harmony
first heard on acquire since pad discords, juxtapose against grimy, distorted bass referred so upon the album and hands, most artists and producers. A slow, bowed like this would feature smooth, pleasant, instrumentation and its arrangement. The fact that tyler chose not only to food, the distorted basin is valid but actually make it. A prominent feature shows his commitment, the arms dichotomy of the beautiful and ugly, creating musical cohesion across the project. Is choices like these that make a dance on, like I think, valid like running out of time, sound related speaking, the same musical language power as a few other instruments to the mix,
near gorgeous are palliated sent that scales up and down the courts in the progression. Throughout the track. We also hear various rhythmic heads of vocal sample walter, hard to tell the samples actually saying run tying it the songs, title and running thing. It's source for them teen eighty six on hit it run by run dmz. now what enters running out of time to perform the songs chorus. His voice is once again pitched up and in the context of this ballot the high almost adolescent, vocal texture accentuates the vulnerability of his message. The first time tyler form the song live. He provided a back story about its conception, disgust. His choice to sing these parts himself, rather than totally outsource them to other vocalists, I'm not the best
a worldly oughta music I like and want to make, is just fucking musical unmelodious. That's what I like. I don't know, I'm not the best in your boat A friend of mine at kendrick was, I played some stuff, and he said oh, oh, this shit is just feeling like feeling like you, weren't worried about the technical per be imperfect, which of ocoee was actually motion and when he said that it was like. Oh shit, you're right. That's why I don't try to always get people to sing well, but sometimes I'm just like fuck it. I was thinking because Someone else, can releasing much truth in what I'm trying to say. So I got it out and I wrote this song basically about that. I made it in the middle of a suffered section in new york. It does make it hard sheet and he took a break, and I just kind of make this it goes like this toddlers
this on feeling is heard, as he things running out of time running out of time running out of time. The repetitions of phrase at immediacy to his plea. Soon, there's a response to the call to make you love me sung in harmony with singer, Jesse Wilson, as alluded to on, I think, an boyfriend time is toddlers most precious resource. He seems ever aware of that. Means of sand relentlessly passing through the hour glass of our lives, making the ambiguity. If this romance a dire situation, time is always running tyler is struggling with the fact that he can't stop the clock, nor can control whether or not his crush loves him back. Instead. He's at the whim of both time and his crush. The obstacle has dried put. It is both romantic, an existential, expressing their all to relate above frustration with the things in life. We cannot totally control and the feelings of inferiority and insecurity. The often accompany rejection recalled it back on. yours theme running was actually the first word, we heard tyler say on the album likely because it represents
Many of the alps theme simultaneously. If tyler's pursuit of his crush akin to running, be it a marathon or political election tyler's losing the race his crush voting eagle red color purposes, what we might consider reverse with one word secrets probes on its own, it feel ambiguous but within the context of eager and what we know about this fumbling relationship secrets is concise. Commentary on the lack of communication between thailand is crush the feelings they are both withholding from each other. Tyler continues. Oh you spend my head around I've.
Looking for it. The play here is that Tyler's lost his mind, made dizzy, biased, crush losing his sense of direction again mrs general disarray from the shaking of earthquake to the off balance and falling of I think during this moment we here assuming by quickly panting from the right speaker to the left back to the right, reflecting how tyler's head is spinning. It's an extremely clever moment. Not only is it causes the same kind of disorientation tyler's expressing in this moment, but specifically using a car sound to accomplish this continues the vehicle motif retract everything egoists theme when he was riding around town feeling this one and also bonds the ideas of running driving into a larger motif of movement and travel. It small details like this that reveal tyler's intentional development of different motifs throughout the album. The line and looking for it stands out in that. Tyler is looking for himself he's literally looking for his head. He's lost himself amidst the end,
entity of his infatuation in the emotional turbulence caused by the uncertainty of whether or not the feelings or mutual, it expresses the uncomfortable level of vulnerability when your emotional equilibrium is at the whim of your beloved. This ideas, even on the album cover retailers head has been separated from a photo lost, an overwhelming pink of love. This brief three line verses completed when toddlers things I've been running out. A spouse to make you love me again here gave love as something he can force, but it's running out, this mentality is revealing itself to be untenable. The use of the word spell feels very intentional: evoking magic and sorcery typically associated with villains like maleficent and sleeping beauty. A cleverly foreshadows. The next on new magic wand were tyler or eager what turn he'll using a magic wand or gun that will eliminate his crushes girlfriend. Now, as a verse continues
Our spoke was actually drop out completely and taking the lead as a new synthesizer playing a gorgeous sweeping ascending melody, which then deflate into a long lonely descent back to where it began a and b, b, b, b, b, b, b b, a this is one of the smaller details on the album that exhibits so much taller musicality, specifically his here for melodic moments that express precisely the emotions he's conveying a someone who's for really studied and composed orchestral music myself. This moment really captures Tyler's orchestral approach to his arrangements in orchestral music. If not, for certain instruments are melodic lines to abstractly, depict emotions, characters or moments in a story line and to me, tat sweeping ascending melody. I once captures its infatuation quite literally, getting swept off his feet while the long
feels like the lonely turmoil felt in the aftermath of this relationship going nowhere. The fact this melodies only heard once in the balkans or cut short to allow it to become the centrepiece of the verse, is such a symphonic worse, just listen to the same melody played on a more traditional orchestral instrument, the clarinet yeah. I another. We have discussed it at length listless into this passage again, appreciating the absolute Beauty of of the smoke gorgeous right in only gives more beautiful for pure as running time transitions into one of the more special passages. The entire album will dissect that and the rest of the song right after the break.
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Come back to dissect before the break. We took a moment to appreciate the beautiful sent melody heard midway through running out of times. First first, as a song continues, the core progression. Changes and tyler performs one of the more moving sections of the hour. Russia does loads during the section, the corporal russia is now played on roads, keyboard instead of acquire patch, but the distorted base remains creating continuity between the part. The sections unique lightly rough around the edges arrangement might obscure its beauty. For some, and because of this I want to play the section on solar piano worth elegance is a little more
transparent, The the to this beautiful music or the lyrics wade in your waters. Your waves wash over me, I drifted deepened hard to understand. Why tyler my compare his crushed to a body of water as something that is beautiful, blissful and in the context of a baptism, even divine, while, simultaneously being a place of life threatening danger. The waves washing over tyler expresses the power of his crush, overtaking him. Directing is life pulling him to the door Andrews deepened. The symbolism of this moment is heightened by the specific phrasing as way
your waters evokes the classic spiritual weight in the water created and first sung by enslaved africans in the united states, where no where the guy. they go on is rather like many spiritual composed by the slaved weight in the water leads to a biblical story, specifically the israelites seeing the jordan river to freedom, its belief that the song was the lies during the underground rail road, as it could away to direct the enslaved seeking freedom to walk the rivers to that tracking dogs and slave catchers contract there footprints or sent wealth unclear whether tyler was purposely referencing, this classic spiritual. There
parallels and his use of water as a sacred, liberating simple and reporting. The feeling of this love as a religious or divine experience giving continues. Don't save me as a low tide I'll be fine. I found peace in drowning while tallard myths that ultimately the heartbreak of this relationship will damage him. He's attempting So again, every last moment of bliss rationalizing that the emotional danger isn't that bad, even though he knows it is the admission of drowning ties into the central theme of running out of time as one can only stay underwater for a limited time before drowning. It's also a conceptual matched. The repeated word secrets that book ended. The first first as to drown, is to remain submerged. Just as secret are submerged toddler seems to be intentionally creating a thread of secrecy endanger the idea that you can't
hide yourself from the world forever, or else you die. There is a world in which tyler and crush learn to swim and breathe, were both are comfortable with themselves and live freely and openly. The judgment of the world be damned, but tyler recognises that this isn't going to happen. They are running out of time and thus find peace and drowning feels incredibly tragic. It insinuates that tyler recognizes the futility and the relationship and his cherishing the final embers of this dying fire, even if it means he'll get burned. Peace in drowning also plays off the actual experience of drought. Referring to pathologists, a mere drowning survivors. The initial panic of real in drowning, is quickly replaced with a feeling of peace and euphoria. they drowning relates to the sonic motif of heavy breathing on the outcome, which we actually here, as running out of time, continued spain, during this section, the distorted
bases, remove from the mix, leaving just a roads keyboard to play the cords alone, bringing the track to its lowest point dynamically tyler asked directly. Are you living and pretend Given the context of the relationship dynamic. To this point, we assume tyler's confronting his crush about their time together, wondering if it some temporary escape us and to see land were, tyler is little more than a toy that will be tossed aside when play time is over, but perhaps more potent me the idea of living and pretend also refers to his crushes public sexual identity and his inability to live folding his truth in both scenarios, tyler continues to push for realness saying: keep it a buck. Fifty, it's a plan, the expression, keep it a hundred, which means to be truthful and authentic, so tolerant,
Fifty is requests to keep it realer than real, or also seems to be added significance to the numerical value here. If two halves or fifties represent one hundred or a buck than a buck, fifty would represent three people, a fitting symbol for the three person love triangle of tyler, his crush and his crushes girlfriend musically the low of this. If section allows for the high, if the next section were suddenly drums, inter for the first time, along with a number of new synthesizer Are you there action is another stand out moment of the album without locals, as tyler lets them.
Music alone sore taking what was up to this point, ballad and transfer make it into a driving damsel group, but like a firework that suddenly explodes before quickly receding the section and after just eight bars, never to be heard again and what, for at a moment that tyler is extremely passionate about here's woody tweeted about the sexual were about to hear shortly after the arm was released, quote the weight in your waters, don't saves and core progression behind the rat birth on running out of time is the most potent version of what
like about music mask on mask of some las vegas appliance yourself. The need to chill okay, it's august back in the day and not a truck. The still running spot section is incredible. Bro with the wrap, but it still has the harmonies under it. That's my favorite cooking song feel like running out. It's like it's. It's always just some pop song like doesn't have me until that part. It's like! Oh! No, this song is about something like its. Then I put the I report the vocals from the first part under that just so. Oh those vote
whose have meaning to him to its all related, given what we know about tyler, it's not hard to understand why he be so proud and passion about the section as juxtaposes rap and that distort base against what for like a nine, these aren't be ballad complete with fingers, snaps beautiful cords played on roads and social background buckles so much of his music at the composition and arrangement that only tyler a cone mecca make synthesizers. So many of his diverse influences and at once again presents the dichotomy of the beautiful and ugly the sound that tyler has been attempting to synthesize for ages. I thought it is just what my ear gravitates to and they either always since day. One I've always wanted to make the prettiest that's borderline, boring more the hardest kings and I've been trying to mix those together since my first album, literally the hardest british now, in that same tweed about running out of time, tyler compared this section, two stevie wonder and take six six peace archipelagos gospel group prominent
the late eightys and ninetys tell it could have been specifically thinking of this, can't imagine, love without you, a collaborative track between wonder and take six, which also features finger, snaps, backing vocals and the kinds of courts. allard typically loved the mother in the park as a tiny grain of sand. Now, as tyler stated in the interview clip, we just heard but the weight in your waters and don't saves backing vocals behind his verse to reinforce the meaning of, what's being wrapped, while subtle, I think, Tyler's pushing back against the general perception that rapping is somehow incapable of expressing deep vulnerable sentiments that those deeper emotions are best express with sung melodies but tyler
early sees the two on the same level. He quite literally fuses them together on this first, he love so much in fittingly if, during this rap verse that we get Tyler's, most direct, articulate expression of his feelings on the arm. Thus far aside from the word secrets is also the first time we hear is natural unaltered voice on the song. Tyler's mask is off and he begins by commanding his crushed. The same quote: take your mask off. I need her out the sure take her mask off. Stop lying for these edwards in terms of the alps narrative. This feels like a significant moment, as we previously discussed. The lack of communication between these two has been a significant obstacle in this relationship. Regressing tal had been afraid to express the way he feels for fear of abandonment. That is true feelings with scare ways crush or the crush has been afraid to express how he feels. You to his fear of outside judgment and his own discomfort, of having feelings for another man relating to the concepts of secrecy and drowning export. Earlier, a mass
continues the idea of submerging or hiding parts of yourself with the hope that doing so will enable you to more comfortably function in the world that you fear. Traditionally speaking, the mask is a potent symbol for identity and all that it encompasses. Sexuality, gender race, all of which we have seen the obstacles and the development of this love. Romantic connection is complicated enough on its own and at the time actually the way expectations and tradition around identity, stifling, complicate love even further. The expectations of gender seem to play a role specifically in these lines as tyler once this girl at the picture. Late specifically talking about the crew his girlfriend, symbolically. Eliminating the woman feels like an attack on the expectations of hetero normative eddie that, if his crush didn't have to fear persecution and judgment about deviating from it, if he wasn't force,
where the mask of a traditional relationship, this love between them and flourish. This idea continues with stop lying for these and words. The wording here feels intentional. The crushes lying for the sake of others, keeping the truth submerged in secret toddlers use of edward seems, like a casual used to generally mean guys encapsulating pressures for men to present a stereo, typically masculine and the potential ridicule and peer pressure. If you don't tell her than really prods beneath the surface, when he says stop lying to yourself. I know the real you Halloween aim for a minute lose the costume. In other words, tyler knows the truth. He sees through the secrets he knows with behind the mask. He seen him without the costume. The idea of life yourself about your sexuality seems like a common experience for queer people recalled your rod. Car michael's words from his rough annual specially red earlier quote. a rebelled against it. My whole life, I thought I'd never ever come out at many
whence I thought I'd rather die than confront the truth of that to actually say it to people, because I know it changes some people's perceptions of me. topic was also addressed in bailey, coffee's peace. Why it took so long to come out to myself where she wrote about the difficulty of coming to terms with their site wildly and unlearned years of social programming quote, do them Religious southern upbringing. It took me a long time to shake the idea that being straight is not the only acceptable sexual orientation. Despite the fact that found people of every gender attractive, I spent a long time line to myself about my feelings, trying to convince myself they weren't real and that I would never actually act on them that I would only take guys and the truth is. I want to believe my own lies. It was easier to shake off my feelings for girls and not by narrow people than to question my own identity. It was a warped form of positive thinking, like I was the secreting my way and not being bisexual. I was
We're holding onto the homophobic ideology I grown up hearing and by telling myself I was straight, I was subconsciously, trying to promote an identity of being someone. I thought who was quote unquote normal and acceptable. I had never considered that part of my coming out process would be coming out to myself. I didn't know the voice in my head could lie to me about something so central to my identity, unquote in tyler's brief, but potent stop lying to yourself. I know the real you. We get a sense that he's tapping into this complex internal psychology and the messy untangling of years of societal indoctrination and perhaps tyler's able to recognize this in his crush because he himself went through a similar untangling in a row now this of scum fuck flower boy for season for this podcast, we followed tyler's journey of self acceptance and understanding which is press most overtly, captured in the song garden, shed its here that tyler compared his closeted attraction to men to a garden shed essential,
and outdoor closet vanishes ownership, but that is what I was. I was were low modesty and see it as an almost garden. Should we get a sense that tyler had been lying to himself for years. He sings guy. ensured. That was where I was hiding. There was real love. I was in a no reason to pretend and later he sings truth is, since a youth, kid thought it was a phase that it be like the phrase poof gone, but it still going on big fan of the beige ten poker dot knows how it goes had to keep it on the subway for a couple butterflies, one afloat, but I was always like air barely interested bag. Just to brag. To my boys, like Brah, the latter line here finds tyler admitting to having relations with women despite his disinterest just to fit in with his friends, perhaps even feeling internalized pressure to prove he wasn't anything other than straight
it feels like a similar scenario to his crush, or at least that's tyler's. Reading of the situation. A reading informed by his first hand, experience with the same pressure is his crushes facing abrupt. Tyler is pushing him so hard because he knows what's on the other side of living in your truth, as he continues, you need a chill ok been running from the targets and am back in the day and now they're working there all another track out the door. A fool acting a ball. We pack in the park, the command you need to chill seems directed at tyler himself, perhaps being too pushy or forceful, and his request that is crushed, suddenly overcome as reservations, because tyler himself is ready or feels like he's invested too much time into a potential dead in tyler, responds okay, but then gives insight into what he had to deal with and why he feels the mask needs to come off. Saying in running from the targets and back in the day here we get another reflection in the prism of the running motif as tyler describes running from targets. In his past, it fuels
he's referring to the discrimination judgment or humiliation. He faced in his attempts to run to safety in the context of this verse in conversation is likely. Part of this was running from himself. He continues and now they work in there all another track out. The door here die the abbreviated name for digital audio workstation, which is actually a computer program used to create music in, like pro tools or logic pro we might work, if tyler means that, while those targets he ran from are now working there all or spending all their time, working nine to fives tyler lives freely in his truth, making music for a living. This would make sense. Given the next line acting a fool acting a ball, we packing the park. The park here can be a little Public park were tyler and his friends guph around outdoors, alluding to the fore,
am a leisure he enjoys, or if we joined the successive ball and park, he could be referring to a ballpark or stadium like the ones tyler packs, with his camp flog, gnaw music festival within the scope of this verse, it seems Tyler's inviting is crushed to partake in this freedom and lifestyle he enjoys Ultimately, though, he ends averse with a reality check, but I'm still running out of time as much as tyler imagined a life with this crush this innovation is unchanged and we still fears the threat of losing this love to circumstances beyond his control running with beautiful descending harmonies tyler tax on a few extra course to the progression, bringing the part to a natural clothes like a club
winding down, but it is somewhat surprising, move tyler returns to the musical material from the songs beginning only this time without vocals notice how they are palliated, synthesizer, pans, rapidly back and forth between the left and right speakers once again, spinning our heads around the sun, It allows us like tyler to savour the final few moments. Beauty disease, but blissful before time runs out. Once for all. Conclusions in conversation with current frost tolerable
That running out of time was in his top three favorite songs on igor. What was your favorite song out of igor new magic? Why I love that song and then second will probably be, I think, not sure, running out of time. It's not hard to understand why the song would be a favorite, its gorgeous musical, unique and, above all, succinctly captures the tragedy of loves fragility and its vulnerability. The circumstances beyond our control as much as totter might attempt to forces. Ship into existence as much as these giving. It is all in trying, as derived put it. The obstacles of any developing bob are vast and complex. His creches- distance to his own sexuality and habits, a myriad of factors and include human histories, intolerance of identity expression and the psychological complications born from such intolerant tolerable duration, what the situation is complicated by his own experience within securities about sexuality and understanding first hand the free
on the other side of that fear. Seeing himself in his crush is almost as if tyler is confronting his past self finds himself chasing the very thing that he once ran from frustrated. By the knowledge that had they met in a different time when his crushes more comfortable with who he is love between these two flower, boys would have a chance to bloom, and this brings us to what I believe is really at the heart of running out of time- the beauty and tragedy of timing. As much as we might romanticize notions. Like true love, wait, the reality seems to be that when two peoples journeys converge matters as much or more than any other factor in the development of loving connection? Indeed, We often described true love as impenetrable invincible, but what it takes to find that kind of love can at times seem impossible the infinite intersections
Circumstance, history, environment and personality create an incomprehensible maize whenever two people meet the complexity of which can feel impossible to navigate together successfully. This is also complicated by time itself. The fact that we only have some It should be clear: how long should we wait for someone who may never change how much of our finite time do we give them all of this makes romantic love at once, tragic and miraculous tragic, because the odd seem disproportionately ski tore, heartbreak and thus miraculous when love actually does work out to the vote. end of our time. Here is the reason we ought to cherish life whenever we're lucky enough to hold it and give it our all and try, despite the obstacles and dead, ends and run, out of time, we can feel tyler realising this love might be falling victim to timing. We feel him beginning more and the loss of a life that never was grieve, drew. That will never be with you
reckoning, with the crushing got wrenching experience, most of us have had at least once in our lives feeling unloved by them new up the most. Sometimes you got a closed door open a window ass eager continues. The threat of his crushed a parting will turn tyler's desperation into danger, as he imagined it. a scenario in which he totally eliminates the obstacle. He feels a standing between him and his crush. What's the obstacle, the girl how does he imagined eliminating her murder? Of course, This is a horse next track new magic wand, a somewhat Yes, I know I know my mind next time and they said
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