Belispeak

Lyrics as they appear on the sleeve of the LP:

grandma my sleep is narrow bid you bring me some strong drink strain out the pulps and set them close outside for when my little belly speaks

grandma there's air beneath my bed and it whispers when I rest bid hem the skirts in salt and vinegar and hover closely under head

grandma my hands have wandered my little legs are getting weak bid lend me your wispy frame guard my precious powers in its cage

grandma the water is rising my boundless hair has gotten green I'll be your swimming forest island bid you walk safely over me

This is a song about intuition. Jung defined intuition as "perception via the unconscious". Essentially it means knowing something in your gut, hence the title belispeak.

Her is an archetype for Grandma intuitive wisdom, accessible through the (collective) unconscious. ‘My sleep is narrow’ refers to her ability to pinpoint meaning or knowledge in her dreams, or more broadly in the (collective) unconscious. ‘Strain out the pulps’ refers to setting reality aside while she intuitively finds meaning, ‘close outside’ so she can apply this knowledge to the outside world; after her ‘belly speaks’.

The air beneath her bed that whispers when she rests refers again to the knowledge she derives from intuition, seemingly out of thin air. ‘Bid hem the skirts in salt and vinegar’ means that she feels this intuition with her at all times, ‘closely under head’ or in her gut, specifically.

‘The water is rising’ means that she’s drowning in conscious ‘reality’ a reality that distorts true meaning. The appearances of the real world do not represent truth. “I'll be your swimming fodder starlet when you walk safely, safely over me,” means that she can navigate, or find true meaning in, such a reality when her grandma walks on the water above her, or when intuition guides her.

“Hands wandered” and “legs weak” means she’s swimming, or living in this distorted reality, but is getting tired. She wants to transcend it (“lend me your wispy frame”). Her psyche slips out of consciousness into the collective unconscious (a dream), leaving only her grandma, blind intuition, as a guide for her physical body (‘guard my precious body’).

Here she sees actual truth, rather than the veil of reality. She’s been liberated, in a sense (‘been unruly in my dreams’) and drills holes into her eyelids so she does not have to wake up (and cease knowing truth) when she returns to consciousness.

god everything purity ring creates is magic~

In my opinion, this song sounds like it's about a young girl from a poor family. She lives with her grandmother who can no longer afford to take care of her and so, in order to prevent her suffering a painful death of starvation she gives her alcohol ("Grandma, my sleepless know that you bring me some strong drink") so that she will fall asleep/pass out and then she drowns her ("Grandma, the water is rising, by now this hair has gotten green"). Perhaps this child blames herself for what her grandmother did, as children often do and that's why she says "Grandma, I've been unruly in my dreams and with my speech". Any other opinions?

Kind of sounds like... She is confessing to her Grandma who is no longer with her physically but in spirit. Of all the things she says she's done like being "unruly" she may feel like corpse. Not alive..good enough for her grandma to view her. As if her actions were "unruly enough" that she had might as well be dead or dying. Her conscious seems to be getting to her. Her "sleepless know"

She wants to see her Grandma, "Drill little holes into my eyelids that I might see you, that I might see you when I sleep" Whether it be as she walks over her in heaven or in her dreams.

OR this could be just another great song. :)

She's pregnant, her baby is growing inside of her, she's worried, her grandma is trying to help, she's dying.

i don't know the meaning of this song but it totally relates to me in some weird twisted way. My grandma died when I was like 10, and I stopped swimming competitively cuz, well, I felt really depressed. But in high school, that's when I restarted and my view of my grandma changed when my mom told me what kind of woman she really was, which was a judgmental woman, with all due respect. So everything changed and I really tried so hard to get back on track to swimming and restarting myself, but her memory still haunted me. I finally get a sense that she's in heaven watching me do a buncha these inappropriate things she would have disapproved of. So I still continue training for numerous hours a day in the pool with my hair getting all dry and ugly but thankfully not green! My legs get tired and I get weak and stronger at the same time. Finally on Prelims day, before my event, I pray and when I competed. I felt her kinda walking over me like how Jesus walked over water. really weird i know :3

Amazing

I think it's about a girl who lives with and is abused by her grandmother, who ultimately drowns her in a pool. Despite this abuse, she has been brainwashed to be loyal and see her grandma as a role model and she feels guilty when she has thoughts of suicide, running away or harming her grandma.

The girl is malnourished and gets fed only with kitchen scraps(pulps) when she is very hungry or when her stomach grumbles ("belly speaks"). The grandmother gives her alcohol to put her to sleep when she is kept awake by hunger.

"bid you bring me some strong drink strain out the pulps and set them close outside for when my little belly speaks"

She has contemplated suicide and has had dreams of running away, but feels guilty for it and things she has said to her grandmother in the past. Despite being abused, she is loyal to her grandmother and wants to spend every moment seeing her.

"Grandma, my hands have wondered"--implying her hands have a mind that has thought about killing her.

"Grandma, I've been unruly in my dreams and with my speech Drill little holes into my eyelids that I might see you that I might see you when I sleep"

Unable to care for her, the grandma eventually drowns her in the pool by luring her out there by saying something encouraging that grandmother's commonly say: "You'll be my swimming starlet." The reference to hair turning green is what commonly happens to blond hair in chlorinated water. "The water is rising"-- the grandma is pushing her deeper and then walks safely along the edge of the pool as the girl starts dying,

Purity Ring's explanation of the song: pitchfork.com/news/43641-rising-purity-ring/