#kyle morton

[weird-goodbyes]

Listen/purchase: neo-america (demo) by kyle morton

i don't know if you're coming back now i don't know where to go thought that you were decent somewhere deep down now i'm hitting bone

[hungerandthirst]

common sentiments – typhoon, live in seattle

[kingreyroi]

Come on now it could be easy

Put the gun down

Just trust me

There’s no escaping

But there’s quiet

And there’s mercy

[petitjeanofficial]

Where words cannot tread, music carries the torch. - Kyle Morton

[koelnpoetry]

Every year I am getting older

And I lose my good looks, lose my charms

Kyle Morton - My Little Darlin Knows My Nature (What Will Destroy You, 2016)

[apesoformythoughts]

I will be your witness if you be mine

[nordarknessdimsthesky]

Do you ever listen to a song and then immediately think of how well it applies to a character?  I’ve been losing my mind over how closely some of the lines from Remember by Typhoon fit Kraken!Ed in S1E10 and what could potentially unfold in season 2.  

The only question now is “How long can it take?”

It’s all hanging on you

Just make your move before you have no move to make

The third line reflects Ed’s thoughts after Izzy threatens him (“My captain is Blackbeard; Edward better watch his fucking step”). Ed realizes it’s no longer safe to Edward, so becoming The Kraken is a defense mechanism – Ed’s way of making a move before he has none left to make.

There’s no future, there’s no lighthouse on the lake

You’re just rambling through

Endless corridors – a mouse lost in a maze

The next verse is pretty self-explanatory for how Ed is coping post-breakup, especially “no lighthouse on the lake” as Stede’s departure.

You gotta calm yourself and try to concentrate

What survives in the fire?

What small fragment after all else disintegrates?

This verse reflects who and what Ed decided to keep aboard the revenge – in this case, he only keeps Jim and Frenchie on his new crew, and then he orders the crew to get rid of all of “Stede’s old dross.” The “small fragment[s]” that remain are the lighthouse painting and the black cravat. 

The only question now’s “How long ‘til it breaks?”

This is the question that ep10 sets up for season 2: how long will Ed be able to be The Kraken before he harms others and/or himself?

I come home and the door is hanging open

The smoke alarm is howling, the bathroom mirror is broken

Find you standing in the backyard pouring gas on the bonfire

I imagine the next verse depicting Stede coming back to the revenge and discovering Ed got rid of Stede’s library, marooned part of his crew, and threw Lucius overboard.

I toss and turn all night then it comes to me

It’s you that can’t shake out the shards in your memory

So you’ve engaged in this scorched-earth policy

‘Til there’s nothing, there’s nothing

“the shards in your memory” definitely sound like Ed’s ptsd here. I wonder how long it will take Stede to realize Kraken!Ed is a trauma response that’s driving Ed to engage in a “scorched-earth policy.”

I toss and turn all night, but there’s no relief

I went into your room, you were sound asleep

So I stayed for a while watching you grind your teeth

This verse pretty much sums up how much Ed is wrestling with himself. *slaps roof of car* This bad boy can fit so much fucking angst in it.

And when you wake, there’s a moment as you rise

You feel it all coming back and you realize

You tried to amputate the parts that made you scared to die

Now it’s kill you if you let it

These lines reflect Ed’s realization that he’s disowned Edward, his vulnerable and open self that lets others in, and foregrounded The Kraken – but at what cost?

You’re a black hole bending light beams backwards

Center caving, self-collapsing inwards

Against the infinite and you have no stature

Shrinking infinitely out of the picture

You pull the lever try to break the pattern

See the crocus in the dead of winter

The outro summarizes what kind of effect Kraken!Ed has on himself – he feels forced to don the persona Izzy wants – but being the Kraken is a regression to a protective and destructive self, the “black hole” that caves in on itself. I hope Ed will be able to “break the pattern” so ingrained from previous trauma and “see the crocus” by cultivating more self-worth, especially for his vulnerable self.

Man that was a deep dive – there are a few more verses I omitted from this analysis because I didn’t know how to fit them in, but the majority of lines from Remember hit the nail on the head for Kraken!Ed. Now all I need is someone to make an amv with scenes from ep10 (plus the bathtub scene and flashbacks in ep6) to this song because that’s been playing in my head all day long.

[sykesarchive1]

having a normal typhoon night. as if there is such a thing