Metal scholars, here's the transcript from Vessel's last conversation with The Mask (Sleep). Credits go to the Sleep Token Discord (Pinned Messages) and Valkyrie Magnus.
I read the exchange, listened to live recordings of the conversation and I'm offering my 2 cents on it.
What do you think about his exchange with the mask? Is it like Faust and the Devil, or more like Victor Frankenstein vs. The Creature? Please let me know in the comments below.
"Vessel's Last Message to The Public is Intriguing"
#sleeptoken #message #analysis
First message:
Mask: They think you fake it.
Vessel: What do you mean?
Mask: When you cry on stage, they don't think it's real.
Vessel : That's a reasonable assumption
Mask : Do you fake it?
Vessel : No, I don't. But it is something I do consistently, so if I was a member of the audience I would probably assume that it wasn't real.
Mask : Do you ever see them crying?
Vessel : No, I can only ever see them smiling. That's good, I want them to smile.
Mask : Do you think they want you to cry?
Do you think they like it?
Vessel : Not as such, I think they just want to know that I am feeling something, feeling what they are feeling, perhaps.
Mask : Do you think that this amount of crying is healthy for you?
Vessel: I don't know. But at least I feel something, if I don't feel anything than why would I even do this?
Second message:
Mask: Why am I here? What is my purpose in all of this?
Vessel: Your purpose is twofold. You protect me, from them, and you also protect them from me.
Mask: How is it that I serve to protect anyone from anything, that makes no sense
Vessel: In order for all of this to work there has to be a certain boundary in place. They need to be able to project themselves onto this, without anyone else's identity getting in the way. In turn, I need to be able to show my true self to them in a way that does not compromise their ability to connect.
Mask: So that's what I am? A boundary?
Vessel: Yes.
Mask: I don't believe you. I believe there is more to it than that. I believe you are afraid of something.
Vessel: We are all afraid of something, are we not?
Mask: What is it you are so afraid they will see?
Vessel: That I am exactly like everyone else.
Third message:
Mask: Are you afraid of me?
Vessel: Sometimes...
Mask: Why?
Vessel: I think I am afraid of becoming you.
Mask: What does that even mean?
Vessel: My life is becoming gradually consumed by you. Before long, all that I am will be contained within you. Then, one day, when I no longer wish to wear you, there will be nothing else left.
Mask: It seems you have forgotten who you are. Before you had me you were nothing. All of this artifice, all this pathetic conjecture about your identity, it is nothing but a manifestation of how short-sighted and solipsistic you have become. I lifted you from misery and obscurity. You would be better to become me. You are nothing without me. You always were nothing without me.
Last message:
Vessel: You. Are. Wrong. In the end, my fractured sense of self was only another piece of fuel for the fire that burns in the eyes of these people before us. They too are pained. They too not know who they truly are. They are each stood alone on a stage of their own. And yet, they are here. United by that sense of never truly belonging. They see something beyond their own bleak horizons. And they reach for it. Together. So let us join now. to reflect their joy and to serve as a conduit for their anguish. To swallow their fear.
To Worship.
Video credits: "Vore" live at Jera on Air, recorded by LawrenceMR7, it's on youtube as well
Background music: Vore instrumental version, done on Moises AI
Coincidentally, the audio is almost in perfect sync with the video, showing that they use a metronome and they freaking rock it live.
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Analyzing The Conversation Between VESSEL and THE MASK
15 сен 2023
