Shut-off
keep quiet stay quiet
you're just a voice in my head you're just a voice of the dead
stay quiet be quiet
you're just a voice from the past you're just a voice that won't last
be quiet keep quiet
I keep my secrets shackled I keep my lovers boxed in
keep quiet stay quiet
your manhood on my mantelpiece your flesh cubed, wrapped in plastic perfectly preserved
stay quiet be quiet
your liver cut,friend an' served your guts fed to stray dogs
be quiet keep quiet
your heart dried fin'lly true size friends found you tasteless
keep quiet stay quite
your hide tanned sold on market little baggies made of skin
stay quiet be quiet
your bones bleached hung out to dry i hid them in plain sight
be quiet die quiet
stay in the box I put you in stay in your plastic wrappers
do not make me come and get you do not make me come and cut you
again
you just wait 'till I get home
die quiet keep quiet
Background info
Shut-off is a sister track to Absent, with both appearing on Id|entities. Of all the different voices and stories on that album, Shut-off and Absent definitely happen in the same universe. With the others one can speculate about but these two leak into each others, include voices from each others and tell two sides of the same story. Whether there are two or just one body containing the voices – that I leave for the listener to decide.
The video for Shut-off was fun to film and got me some worried looks in Tampere train station.
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