3/23/2017

desire ripped heart



Q&A: Charlie Looker on "Ripped Heart" and "Cuckold"

What is "Ripped Heart" by Extra Life about?
The song "Ripped Heart" is about desire. It's about feeling desire as a positive force in and of itself, separate from possessing the object of your desire. It's about desire as a thing, a presence, not as a lack of a thing. It's kind of philosophical I suppose, but it's also very personal and has applied to so many real emotional situations... That song was inspired by the book Anti-Oedipus by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari. Incredible book. Despite all the Marx in it, which I don't have a complete grip on, it was speaking to me deeply at the time I wrote the song. With these lyrics I was also just trying to cheer myself up after a particularly stupid romantic failure.



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