Song Details
- Album Release Date: 2012
- Genre: french
Song Meaning of “Slippery Slope (Vitalic Remix)” by The Dø
“Slippery Slope (Vitalic Remix)” by The Dø is a song about the danger of falling into a destructive, self-destructive, and difficult situation. It is about taking risks that could have consequences too vast to comprehend, but doing them anyway. The song’s dark and driving beat reflects the foreboding feeling of taking a path of no return.
The lyrics of the song paint a bleak picture of a person on a downward spiral. With lines like “Back into the pattern, dark and obscure/You can’t tell the future, can’t walk the tour,” we feel the tension of being stuck and the unknown of life ahead. This struggle is further illustrated when the singer expresses feelings of entrapment with “Stuck in a cycle, neither dead nor alive” and being caught in an inescapable pattern: “Another road keeps closing down/Trepidation on the slippery slope”.
The song’s chorus speaks to the courage it takes to take these risks, while knowing you won’t get the same person back: “Not sure I ever will survive/It’s a maze, it’s an ambivalence ride”. It is a song of awareness and reflections on taking chances and not knowing what lies ahead. The song ends with the haunting line “Pick the card, and off you go/You can’t tell the future, no one is the master”. A reminder that some risks in life are meant to be taken, with the trust that things will work out in the end.