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King Cobra perspirating through the brown sack Harry Fraud (Ft. Earl Sweatshirt & RiFF RAFF) – Yacht Lash
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Your heart is lifeless and made of wood, and is dripping pitch, a black, viscous (and pretty gross) fluid. It’s basically a metaphor for how cold and uncaring you are, which is interesting when you take into account the previous line (that it felt good)
On the other hand, this line, and the line before it, could refer to how her heart was actually warm. When wood is on fire, the pitch actually helps to keep the fire going. Moreover, pitch was used, in the past, to act as a glue and keep things together.
So, more or less, this woman’s (his wife/ex-wife) intentions were all just fine, and they were fine with Isaac too.
Being covered in pitch and made of wood means her heart was ready to be set on fire. She was willing and eager.
Isaac has never been married. When I hear this line I think of it as saying that the person’s heart is old-fashioned and made with some primitive skill. Pitch is how primitive boats and torches are made.
It takes about a decade for Pitch to drip a single drop. The dripping of pitch includes an acknowledgement of our short time on Earth slowly dripping away.
Its a bit of a stretch but this line could also be a biblical reference.
Genesis 6:14
“Make for yourself an ark of gopher wood; you shall make the ark with rooms and you shall cover it inside and out with pitch”
This makes some sense, saying that the woman’s heart provides shelter from a metaphorical storm and it also makes sense under the context that she is pregnant and literally sheltering a living thing inside of her.
BReese20: Very interesting. Reminds me of these lines from Life Like Weeds:
I always hear them as a resignation to physical determinism, which would likely put the heart boat into an uncontrollable ocean.
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Pitch & wood is also used in the construction of boats. Most famously, the ark in Genesis was made of wood and pitch (Genesis 6:14) and Moses' basket (Exodus 2:3).
The heart as a boat upon water would jibe with the idea that are bodies are oceans. In other words, the heart rocks with the currents of the body’s desires and rhythms.
I think you could take this in two related but different interpretive directions: (1) our heart is the only thing we can control, the only place of safety in this cold universe. (2) A more fatalistic approach: our heart is totally subject to the current of our body. We’re just tossed by the tides of life, a kind of physical determinism.
I don’t know, what do other folks think?
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Pitch is created by ‘dry-distilling’ wood, meaning you heat up the wood to a high degree without having it burn. To me this line is about the strength of their passion – and likely friction, too – that heat her heart enough for it to start drippin' pitch.