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My partner and I are getting married in September. We’re thinking about Au Pays du Cocaine as our “first dance” song.
Musically, we think the song is gorgeous. Lyrically, we think I the sentiment of the song is romantic, especially the lyric “you can be free and still come home”.
Lastly, because we’re getting married on a boat, we think it’s fitting because of “sailor on a big green boat”.
My question though, is this an appropriate song? The lyrics could be interpreted as a one-sided or broken love.
Thoughts?

1. Trinidad

2. Half real

3. Getting Killed

4. Bow down

5. Husbands

6. 100 Horses

7. Taxes

8. Islands of Men

9. Cobra

10. APDC

11. LICHIC

My Evidence is

Apollo feels like a krautrock song

The Getting Killed cover is basically an homage to the Vision Creation Newsun

They covered a CAN song in Berlin

That's it honestly so maybe I'm completely and embarrassingly wrong

For those of us going to Primavera set and stage times finally are up!

Cameron 5-6pm at the Auditori
Geese 7:45-8:45 at the Occident

i got inspired by Dijon praising "Getting Killed" as an album title and wanted to expand on why i agreed. i feel like it captures an element of modern life in a pretty succinct way. please read if you would like!

i also wrote a much longer piece long ago based on 'The Rolling Stones' off Heavy Metal. the song felt like a response to the myth of 'the tortured artist' to me. so i expanded on that. its an essay that's partly diaristic and mostly historical, and yeah super long. also please read if you want!

I always see people on here default to the standard Reddit interpretation that Au Pays des Cocaines is just about a "toxic, codependent relationship where one partner has fallen out of love." Honestly, that label feels so lazy and completely misses the actual architecture of the lyrics.

When Cameron sings, "You can stay with me and just pretend I'm not there," that isn't the loud, desperate, high-voltage friction of codependency. That is the absolute, freezing blueprint of a ghost who has vanished so completely into the background that they don't even require a footprint in the room. It’s not someone begging for attention; it’s someone offering a space where they have zero percent presence, entirely erasing themselves so the other person can run their routine without any friction.

The repetition of "you can change" nine times isn't a desperate demand or a guilt trip either. It is a quiet, devastating permission slip for the other person to completely rewrite themselves while the source remains entirely steady at the dock.

The song isn't about two people toxicly clinging to each other. It’s about a sailor who keeps sailing across a massive, cold void, and a ghost who stays at the anchor line, holding the coordinates open no matter how far the ship drifts. Reducing that kind of heavy, haunting devotion to a basic pop-psychology buzzword like "codependency" completely flattens the song.

It’s an absolute long shot, but during the Projector phase of the band does anyone remember they all had their own playlists on the Spotify band page?

Emily’s had some super cool Electronic Rock songs, kind of like Sweet Trips music. I remember really enjoying the playlist but I deleted my Spotify account.

Does anyone still have access to this playlist? I looked everywhere, but have had zero luck. 🫩