I’ve just added this song to a playlist I’m making called “Awake”. That’s because the “Choke me in the shallow waters, before I get too deep” line makes me think of the fear that I feel when trying to consider what the narratives in philosophy and religion are trying to get to…
At the same time “What I am is what I am / You what you are or what?” makes me think of of a Gen Z phrase I really like (I’m Gen X): “You do you” (“the kids” say it in a very chilled, accepting “different strokes for different folks” way).
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Because I think it’s both at once: Understanding what every person in the world is trying to understand and what each person knows within themselves. And that is overwhelming.
I then went to search what Edie herself had said about the lyrics. This is her in a 2011 Vanity Fair interview:
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INT: Going back to your breakout hit, “What I Am,” did you write the lyrics to that?
EDIE: Yes. The lyrics came from my one elective in my first year in college, world religions. From the time I could first think, I wondered, What does the rest of the world think? I know what these Texas folks think [laughs], but what’s going on in the rest of the world? So I took this world religions class, and I was immediately annoyed at the chatter going on in the classroom. To adopt behaviors, to adopt some sort of dogma, I felt defeated the purpose of evolution. That song just blossomed from irritation.
INT: Did you feel like you were saying something controversial when you wrote, “Religion is the smile on a dog”?
EDIE: No, I didn’t mean to. I meant that in an endearing way, because what is more expressive and sweet than that smile on a dog? And I felt that in terms of religion, some people see it, some people don’t see it.
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INT: What did you mean by “Choke me in the shallow water”?
EDIE: That’s the part that was irritating about the class. Everybody was getting so deep in terms of making things up—“Does this mean this and does that mean that?” I was just irritated, like, just kill me now before I get out there and lose myself and my sense of who I am.
INT: I’m going to have to listen to that again now.
EDIE: Yeah, I have no idea what I just said.
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