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>You're blinded by cheap wordplay and overdone rap lyricism. 'end of a life' has some of the most subtle lyrics out of all of calli's songs. She takes the usual cliches associated with anarchic musical bohemianism, the romantic 'punk' lifestyle, and subtly twists them to be self-critical. Her 'labyrinth of lights' takes a usual metaphor and plays on the idea of illumination being disorientating rather than revealing. "screaming at the top of our lungs to the numbness" begins with an anarchistic romantic cliche but uses the last word to critique it. A lesser musician would merely relate those events at face value, as a celebration of the rock ideal and not 'selling out', but 'end of a life' is such a narratively unique take on that type of song because calli shows the gaps in such naive romanticism, how such a life is really a life of burnouts and nobodies who celebrate self-hate. It is nostalgic, condemnatory, and self-critical, utterly complex in its expression although the lyrics are more simple and precise than her other songs. Of course there are the obvious verbal fireworks too like the 'off is where you're laid line'. Her choice of producer was also perfect for showing the vacillating dream state of the artist who doesn't know where her journey will take her. 'end of a life' shows calli's growth emotionally and thematically as an artist and augurs a great future if she can maintain her development and not fall to the trap of relying on stuff that just aims to feed her fanbase superficially.
