Bounce Man is the Antithesis to Neon Gravestones
Bounce Man is interesting to me mainly because of how much it contradicts everything about tøp. It fits in among Scaled and Icy (an anagram for Clancy is Dead, because the album is dema propaganda) since Clancy is not alone the messenger in these songs. The whole album is tainted with messaging contrary to what Clancy advocates for, and this is most apparent in Bounce Man, most particularly the line “Yeah, I told you all along running away don’t make you wrong”. This line is drenched in irony, because off the top of my head, here are a couple times he’s told us that running away makes us wrong:
-“Friend, please don’t take your life away from me”
-“You think twice about your life, it probably happens at night, right? Fight it, take the pain ignite it“
-All of Guns For Hands
-All of Truce
-The rap in Ride
-All of Neon Gravestones
-“Save your razor blades now, not yet” (more applicable to sh but it’s a gateway drug)
-“I’ll keep on trying, might as well”
-Leave the City, just a little bit
He has NOT told us that all along. The most significant parallel (or in this case, perpendicular) to Neon Gravestones imo is “come to the house man, we’ll sing one more song” to “right before we turn on them we give them the highest of praise and hang their banner from the ceiling communicating, further engraving an earlier grave is an optional way”. Everything about this song is the exact opposite of Neon Gravestones. It’s happy sounding, it promotes suicide, it‘s filtered, yet doesn’t duck and weave around its core subject matter, and most of all, it doesn’t seem genuine at all. I think this song was made completely just to subvert everything that Neon Gravestones was made for, as Neon Gravestones is a massively powerful song for dema citizens, and needs to be dealt with. Bounce Man is the Neon Gravestones disinformation campaign.