Results for “endlessness/infinity”

Songs

Aesop Rock

Aesop Rock builds a dense allegory around farm-animal escape and surveillance-state paranoia, using the imagery of Animal Farm…

surveillance and control anxiety and hypervigilance complicity versus escape

Eric B.

A boastful battle-rap centerpiece from Rakim (credited to Eric B. as the duo's name) built around the conceit that his rhyme…

invincibility and mastery endlessness/infinity battle rap dominance

Elvis Costello

Costello imagines the afterlife as a tacky nightclub of endless small humiliations rather than fire and brimstone. The song's…

damnation as banality social embarrassment kitsch and bad taste

Thom Yorke

A meditation on modern overload, "Analyse" pairs images of endless data and abstraction with a numbing sense of exhaustion. It…

information overload alienation exhaustion

Traffic

A road-worn account of touring life, set to a loose groove that mirrors its subject's fatigue and drift. The song moves from…

touring exhaustion rootlessness alienation from ordinary life

Michael Jackson

A frantic, groove-driven complaint disguised as a love song: the narrator is exhausted not by manual labor but by the endless…

overwork as metaphor for unreciprocated effort suspicion and jealousy exhaustion

Sturgill Simpson

A blistering protest song wrapped in a lullaby's intent, addressed from a father to a son, that names the machinery of endless…

militarism and foreign policy loss of individual identity in institutions media saturation and distraction

Nirvana

A grinding, image-drunk portrait of romantic dependency, framed as a body trapped inside someone else's body. Cobain piles up…

codependency and entrapment illness and the body sarcasm as self-defense

Carly Simon

Carly Simon splices the nursery rhyme about the persistent spider into the title track's refrain from her own 'Coming Around…

resilience cyclical hope romantic disappointment