1221

Qwel’s brief explanation of “1221” from an interview posted on Galapagos4’s website (source here):

Explanation: This is just observation of addiction.[Intro - Woman's voice:]

If you feel you are not properly sedated

Call 3-4-8-8-4-4 immediately

Failure to do so may result in prosecution for criminal drug evasion

[Verse 1:]

She figures this forming of mourning, this morning of haunting is hopeless

And copes with the storming of ugly with born again vultures

Belonging, that the song that she’s longing to sing

Is ringing the stinging of wanting of opiates

Only-ifs

Hopes she gets over this holiest mountain

The focus blips out of it

Down a bit lower

The loneliness fits like the rope she grips

So closely it hinges

Sees only it

Cold and rejected, perfected alone we can see it

Co-exist

This oubliette name of it, new regret

Who forgets how we fuck up, don’t deserve it

Purpose no secret, she seeks it and flirts with it

Percocet weakness and weekends of nervous sweats

Wrenchin' her guts and her mind

Obstructin' her mind

Clutchin' the rungs but there’s drugs on the climb

Whisper, the sun doesn’t shine

Flickering candles, the annals of time

No bickering, fickle mechanical, Anna go blind, Anna go blind, and Anna go blind

[Verse repeats in double time]

[Outro:]

I see her sitting in her favorite corner

Figuring on her fingers and toes

How she figures she knows what everyone else is thinking

Only she knows

Besides me