In keeping with previously using emo ass music for Stolas-spite Stellitz, Emptiness Machine by Linkin Park.
This one's very easy, 1st verse through chorus are Blitzø, 2nd verse through chorus are Stella, alternate and duet onwards.
Don't really have an explanation for the blade imagery specifically, maybe a callback to Stolas' deflections in Western Energy — it does link back to him liking beartraps used in bed and thus links to using Blitzø. "Flashing your favorite point of view" can be reflective of Stolas' tendency to see his beliefs as the only true facts (see: Stolas thinking he'd been flirting with Blitzø throughout season 1, his tantrum in The Full Moon where he's decided Blitzø doesn't love him so kicks Blitzø out, his belief that he doesn't look down on Blitzø, his belief that Blitzø "couldn't be bothered" to save him from Striker, his belief that he has let people see that he likes Blitzø because that menu scene was nothing and was definitely not their last appearance together before hell's public, and seemingly his belief that he told the truth in the trial??). "I know you're waiting in the distance / Just like you always do, just like you always do" can be Stolas as a looming threat, powerful enough to ruin Blitzø's life on a whim. It would also have a nice link to Stolas' sudden appearances to save Blitzø, like in Truth Seekers when he literally and vaguely says "I have my ways" when asked how he knew they needed help. Also in Mastermind given Stolas (in Blitzø's view) stops his execution just in the nick of time, which yeah it's decidedly a good thing for Blitzø but it still'd reinforce the paranoia. That said, this would only have impact if Stolas still had those "ways" so maybe Mastermind wouldn't've happened or maybe AU divergence at this point, who knows.
I'm gonna skip to the other verse which is Stella's because they both get a pre-chorus & chorus and they're quite similar, so I'll do them simultaneously later.
"Going around like a revolver" is an obvious tie to both Stella & Stolas' own cycle of abuse in their relationship, and specifically the revolver imagery has a nice link to Striker's gun given the assassination attempts are the culmination of that cycle. But also it goes beyond them to be the cycle of the Goetia family lifestyle, especially with the following line "It's been decided how we lose". "'Cause there's a fire under the altar / I keep on lying to, I keep on lying to" could be a bunch of things to do with Stella's feelings on her arranged marriage to Stolas. The "fire" could be the pressure of the wider Goetia family to keep the marriage intact, which is forever ruined from Stolas making their issues public by calling for a divorce. It could be her feelings of her marriage and by extension presence in the Goetia family being a danger — the arranged marriage itself, having to exist around those with powers she seemingly doesn't possess, her brother — that she lies to herself about by enjoying the luxuries it gives her.
Pre-choruses: "Already pulling me in, already under my skin / And I know exactly how this ends, I". Very much just that Stolas is a constant presence they have to deal with that they know could fuck them. For the first line, both parts of it work for both of them but the first works more for Blitzø and the second for Stella imo.
Now chorus. I'm gonna put each line then separate bullet points for Stella & Blitzø reasonings.
"I let you cut me open just to watch me bleed / Gave up who I am for who you wanted me to be"
Stella, through choosing to stay married to Stolas, "let" herself stay stuck.
Blitzø willingly degrading himself just by being around Stolas, enduring all Stolas' comments and touches, sometimes playing into it himself, just so I.M.P. can get by.
"Don't know why I'm hoping for what I won't receive / Falling for the promise of the emptiness machine"
For Stella, this is about the Goetia family. Stella is not meant to be anything more than a mother. If she fails at that, she's worthless to them. If she succeeds, she's done all that she's worth. There is no reward from them.
For Blitzø, this is about class dynamics and imp discrimination. If he can get I.M.P. running, he'll finally be respected as a person, not simply seen as some bottom of the barrel imp. He can make a name for himself, not be a nameless slave to the systems that be. Stolas is just the personification of this futile hope, Blitzø holding out for the day Stolas will respect him and see him as a person, but for as long as he holds that hope Blitzø is damning himself to misery.
Finally, "I only wanted to be part of something" and all the variants throughout. This is simple. They just wanted to be important for who they were. But that want led to them participating in a system that stripped all dignity from them. What they once enjoyed they now loathe. The freedom of being a royal at the top of society is restricted by all the duties and expectations from being a woman. The freedom of being a business owner is restricted by all the discrimination from being an imp.
