It’s unsettlingly easy. Nothing has changed in this song. The same Son Lux. The same unsettling melody. Or the same bass line from Woodkid. Yet something is completely different. As if the world has grown around Son Lux’s diagnosis.

The Manual for Pain

Pull out your heart to make the being alone

I listened to it as a metaphor for pain and loneliness. As a user manual on what to do when it hurts. Because, after all, it’s supposed to be easy. But it turns out it’s not like someone promised on YouTube or some other video. Ultimately, though, no one can do what Son Lux describes. Once you rip out your heart, it’ll be easy. A lot of things will be easy then.

In a world that demands we remain efficient, the heart is often the first thing that gets in the way.

The Paradox of Surrender

You break the bonds to lose control

It’s a bit of a paradox to destroy any bonds just to lose control. Usually it’s the opposite - we destroy bonds to regain control. As if freedom were hiding on the other side of surrender.

Crushed for your holy soul, concealed and cold

Out of control, with a crushed soul, cold and closed off. Then there will be nothing you can do with it.

Burn all your things to make the fight to forget

We become nothing. There’s no need to fight for anything. There’s no need to remember anything. Then there is no longer a subject that feels pain.

And only then is it easy. Oh, easy.