Song Details
- Album Release Date: 2012
- Genre: groove
Song Meaning of “God Complex – Anger” by Spineshank
This gritty, angsty track by Spineshank speaks to how human beings can become so consumed by pain and anger that it changes our outlook on life and eventually we become unrecognizable to even ourselves. The song starts by mentioning how we have allowed the darkness to take ahold of us leading to a ‘god complex’ – a kind of feeling that one is in perfect control of their own fate and destiny, and above the laws of human experience.
The hook ‘Anger’s such a noose, a tether that inhibits and carries us down a familiar, unpleasant road’ is a metaphor for how this dark feeling can keep us so tightly wound that it strangles us and takes us somewhere we never want to tread again. The verses speak to how all this rage has overridden our sense of identity and morality, leaving us feeling broken and helpless. The bridge speaks bluntly about how our sense of worth in this tragedy is zero and how the only thing left for us to do is run and never look back, in order to break free from its grasp.
In the end, the song indicates how powerful the emotion of anger can be, and how it can easily engulf us until we are stuck in a place of complete hopelessness. The only way out is to do the exact thing our anger forsakes us for: run away and never look back.