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666
9/11
A hit career, applause and proof of having made it
A human body, romantic access and entry into the desired world
A musical identity, freedom from ordinary life and public recognition
A record, distribution, audience and survival as a working artist
A simple verbal act functions as execution of terms the speaker understands better than the caller.
A soul and enforced service
ALBUM
ARTIST
Access to primal knowledge and participation beyond ordinary consciousness
Access, promotion and legitimacy inside the music business
Access, sensual thrill and proximity to forbidden power
Accused power embraced as protective persona
Active search for a buyer under economic pressure
Addiction bargain recognized at the edge of death
Addiction defended as a chosen superior deal
Addictive supplier becomes total controller
Adoration, recognition and immunity from obscurity
Agency against adults, supernatural assistance and relief from isolation
Agency, future conduct and identity
Alcohol as infernal friend and creditor
Allegiance, public identity and independent moral judgment
Allegiance, worship and the right to serve another authority
Ambition and money internalize the devil
An earlier advantage the song no longer specifies
An explanation for suffering and permission to inhabit the outlaw role
Ascension, recognition and escape from human limitation
Attempted release from a devil carried inside
Attention, autonomy and control over a hostile public narrative
Attention, career movement and relief from invisibility
Attention, intimacy and permission to embody forbidden desire
Audience bargain after impending fame
Autonomy, authentic desire and control of the future
Autonomy, identity and control of action
Awe, intensity and participation in overwhelming power
Bargain
Beelzebub
Being consumed is framed not as cost but as the success condition.
Being seen becomes a claim that the public owns what it sees.
Being seen becomes the evidence used to justify surrender.
Belonging, inverted salvation and access to forbidden sacred power
Belonging, secret knowledge and collective power
Belonging, strength, military identity and permission to survive
Betrayal exchanged for payment and intimacy
Black Rider
Blood, bodily identity, future obligation and facilier's own debt to his patrons
Blue dress
Bodily agency, perception and the coherent self
Bodily agency, truth, time and ultimately life
Bodily autonomy, distance and the ability to stop
Bodily autonomy, intimacy and confidence in the self's boundaries
Bodily autonomy, spiritual orientation and identity
Bodily boundaries, privacy and the right to withhold performance
Bodily control, health, authorship and the ability to stop
Bodily safety and the ability to leave the dance
Bodily safety, ordinary belonging and freedom from the martyr role
Bodily safety, sleep and a stable boundary between self and intruder
Booze
Breath, autonomy and the right to choose a different purpose
Bridge
Broken contract and attempted exit
Bucket
CPR
California
Cards
Career access, visibility and survival inside the music business
Career origin narrated as infernal compact
Carmen
Cash, survival and relief from economic precarity
Cassandra
Certainty, belonging and promised rescue
Certainty, protection, meaning and intimate belonging
Charismatic fixer grants desires and takes identity
Chosen companionship with destructive power
Clara Bow
Clerk
Coherent identity and ownership of the prior self
Coherent identity, privacy and freedom from the system enabling ascent
Collective allegiance, moral autonomy and the prior order
Collective enthronement of infernal power
Collective revolt against the deal maker
Collector announces arrival and authority
Collector pursuit after an unstated bargain
Collector returns
Companionship, power and permission to transgress
Compass
Compassion, spiritual standing and the ability to recognize power in low form
Compton
Confession may protect the other, but it may also make harm feel pre-authorized.
Confined subject asks a denied savior for release
Conscience, humanity, family and any survivable self-concept
Consent boundaries, safety and control over the summoned being
Continued association and enforceable loyalty
Continued attachment to familiar darkness and the identity built around it
Continued possession of their souls and safe passage
Contractual ownership and inherited damage
Control of the encounter and confidence in where the summons leads
Control of the world, escape from mortality or reinvention
Control over the burdened soul and dependence on an unnamed rescuer
Controller speaks from inside as provider and destroyer
Controller trained the subject into obedience
Conversation, reassurance and soul transfer
Cosmic adjudication and the appearance of fair play
Creative performance under an existential threat
Cultural dominance, immunity and a godlike persona
Daddy
Daddy at work
Daddy with dough
Dance with a disguised death-dealer
Dark Master
Dear Father
Dear Mother
Death followed by demonic reinvention
Declared alliance and service
Deliverance, direction and passage
Dependence demands political or spiritual obedience
Descent and seizure of infernal authority
Desire-reading leads to a rigged magical contract
Desperation reverses the usual temptation: the seller recruits the buyer.
Devil
Devil appears as author of a doomed identity
Devil bargain accepted to recover love
Devil label
Devotion maintained through suffering
Devotional surrender to a named dark savior
Digital and spiritual ascent trades the self
Dire wolf
Discernment, bodily safety and control over the spiritual route
Disputed crossroads bargain
Disputed faustian confession
Dissent, moral independence and the ability to survive refusal
Distance, analytic control and the tools of the prior identity
Elizabeth Taylor
Emily
Empowerment arrives through a transformation that makes the old body unusable.
Encounter with a displaced or sold self
Entertainment success operated by hidden hands
Entry, work, recognition and belonging among the powerful
Erotic encounter becomes infernal submission
Escape from humiliation through the devil's power
Escape from one god-making machine ends with the survivor installed in another.
Executive offer trades identity for market access
Exit requires giving up the devil's dependable companionship as well as his burden.
Explicit admission of selling out/soul to make a record
Explicit soul sale for worldly exchange
Explicit soul sale to become a rock singer
Faith, bodily safety, trusted intimacy and a stable self
Fame acquired through stated soul sale
Fame and wealth linked to a soul bargain
Fame bargain named after success
Fame broker sells salvation and buys followers
Fame contract converts body into public property
Fame, access, equipment and a place inside the industry
Fame, money, audience and artistic dominance
Familiar evil preferred to uncertain freedom
Familiar religious structure lowers resistance to a reversed recipient.
Father conflict
Faust
First-person claim of an industry devil bargain
Florida
Follower surrenders judgment to a false spiritual authority
Formal oath of infernal allegiance
Freedom, excitement and escape from ordinary restraint
Freedom, memory, artistic voice and the right to leave
Freedom, safety and the ability to stop serving the successful persona
Further violence and continued definition by the enemy
Georgia
Grief makes any condition feel smaller than continued absence.
Guardian angel
Guardian request
Gunfire
Health, honesty, agency and life
Health, intimacy, time and the soul named in the exchange
Health, money, relationships and freedom from the supplier
Health, spiritual peace, identity and life
Health, time, judgment and the ability to leave
Heaven
Heightened sensation, release and surrender to a compelling altered state
Heroic purpose, intimacy and the reward of rescue
Hidden darkness offered with intimacy warning
Highway
Human agency, historical direction and informed consent
Human identity, innocence and the possibility of return
Human souls treated as stakes
Humility, private identity and freedom from the role of chosen leader
Identification with the taker ends with the taker possessing what the speaker loved.
Identity, authorship and control over how the work is valued
Identity, intimacy and the ability to trust
Identity, obligation and safety from the benefactor
Immunity, dominance and control over shame
Independent judgment, dissent and the right to define danger
Industry admission converts person into product
Industry vampires take a share of youth
Infernal force located inside ordinary people
Initiation bargain for status becomes irreversible horror
Initiation strips identity and installs command
Inner force takes command after being fed
Innocence as defined by the condemning order and continued entanglement with its imagery
Innocence surrendered for access to the garden
Innocence, relationships and future conduct
Innocence, safety and a moral frame outside the scene
Intense love, fantasy and access to a uniquely powerful partner
Intensity, recognition and love attached to transgression
Interior access, trust and the right to define the target's wounds
Intimacy, acceptance and relief from concealment
Intimate recognition used to secure access
Invitation into ritual allegiance
Japanese voice
Judgment, bodily autonomy and spiritual self-direction
Kitty
Knowledge of betrayal does not dissolve attraction
Las Vegas
Letter home
Liberation, solidarity and a future beyond the pact
Life, soul or moral innocence depending on the interpretation
Life, spiritual safety and freedom from the pact
Limits, competing loyalties and the right to remain ordinary
Loan request
London
Loss of faith traded for intoxicated fame
Lost faith
Love, escape and a world remade for the beloved
Loyalty, friendship, spiritual integrity and peace
Lucifer
Lucifer offers love and demands trust
Lucy
Lucy/Lucifer
Machine identity replaces the human self
Mama
Mama best believe it
Mama look at me
Mama nickname
Mama’s teaching
Market access, money, prestige and acceleration
Mastery sought through forbidden powers
Media persona delivers seductive false wisdom
Media power, reinvention and insulation through irony
Mental autonomy, trust in perception and the ability to exit
Mephistopheles
Mesmeric ruler captures travelers
Mom and Dad cut off
Momma
Momma giving birth
Money and power offered for the soul
Money, authority, prestige and public permanence
Money, control and creative energy
Money, critical judgment and public loyalty
Money, political utility or alignment with worldly power
Money, power and accelerated passage
Money, status, solutions and entry into the city’s power
Monkey King
Monster questions the terms of ownership
Moral agency, safety and the right to remain
Mother War
Mother of Violence
Mozo
Musical destiny, endurance and recognition
Musical mastery, sophistication and access to forbidden knowledge
Name invocation forms a coercive alliance
Name, conscience, bodily agency and refusal
Nazareth
New Heights
Nothing explicitly offered in the lyric
Numbness, capability and escape from vulnerable humanity
Numbness, status, pleasure and the ability to keep performing
Occult knowledge, command and extraordinary agency
Occult power, belonging and protected status
October
Oedipal fixation
Ophelia
Ordinary humanity, relational limits and freedom from the enemy's image
Ordinary life, safety and permanent service to the chosen identity
Ordinary vulnerability, relational reality and personal survival
Pact
Pact to recover lost love
Pact with nonhuman power for survival
Paid intermediary offers private salvation
Paradise is recognized as a place where monsters and aspiration share ownership.
Participation in victorious power and a reset of the old world
Partnership, advantage and reliable terms
Passage, knowledge and adventure through forbidden territory
Patient
Performance demanded to preserve the soul
Permission to act on appetite and freedom from external blame
Peter Pan
Pills
Plain speech, stable identity and accountability for the message
Pleasure, belonging, numbness and a sense of superior knowledge
Pleasure, release and inclusion in forbidden movement
Pleasure, visibility, artistic mythology and access to a forbidden world
Polished recruiter encountered at the crossroads
Portofino
Possession transferred through desire and betrayal
Possible release, transformation or escape from consequence
Post-bargain companionship and collection
Post-deal plea for return before knowledge
Power accepted, then reproduced as a new faith
Power, fearlessness and membership in an absolute counter-order
Power, protection and expression of forbidden emotion
Power, reinvention and escape from insignificance
Prayer as explicit transfer of worship
Predatory elite recruits and drains youth
Predatory loan
Predestined service under a consuming hold
Predictability, protection and belonging
Prince
Privacy, exclusive intimacy and control of the original relationship
Privacy, family stability, ordinary identity and the soul
Protection and work offered to a vulnerable artist
Public demonization converted into market power
Purity claims, control and the fantasy of operating outside the market
Purpose, training, protection and access to power
Purpose, transformation and contact with the worshiped power
Questions
Rebellion still occurs on the controller's terms and keeps the controller central.
Rebirth, authority and freedom from the former self
Recognition arrives after the group has made the crime inseparable from who he is.
Recognition arrives with documentary evidence held by the buyer.
Recognition, a larger audience and escape from obscurity
Recognition, intimacy and relief from isolation
Record deal
Recovery of autonomy and repayment of betrayal
Redemption, legitimacy and release from a condemned identity
Refusal narrative under pressure to convert
Refused small exchange reveals spiritual price
Relief from regret and a new beginning
Relief, certainty and an end to unbearable inner conflict
Relief, fellowship and distance from pain
Relief, intensity and temporary escape
Relief, intoxication and temporary control over unbearable feeling
Relief, sensation, identity and escape from restraint
Relief, success and an end to inner conflict
Relief, understanding and a customized path to faith
Repeated return to the betrayer
Rescue bargain reveals a predatory enchantress
Rescue, purification and continued creative life
Resistance succeeds commercially but may bind identity to the accusation it defeats.
Responsibility, alternate identity and belief in a different future
Rest, home, sleep and freedom of movement
Restoration, innocence and a self outside the consuming bond
Restraint, spiritual peace and freedom from the retaliation cycle
Retention of money, status and control over who deserves help
Return
Reunion, recognition and delivery of absolute love
Revelation, transcendence and forbidden experience
Revenge power invoked through lucifer
Risk, violence and the possibility of reproducing the ruler's methods
Ritual force overwhelms the observer
Ritual language turns performance into a formally witnessed commitment.
Ritual summons and binding invocation
SONG
SYMBOL:ABUSE
SYMBOL:ALTER-EGO
SYMBOL:ANTHEM
SYMBOL:APPEARANCE
SYMBOL:APPETITE
SYMBOL:ART
SYMBOL:ATTRACTION
SYMBOL:BARGAIN
SYMBOL:BLACK-RIDER
SYMBOL:BLINDNESS
SYMBOL:BLOOD
SYMBOL:BRIDGE
SYMBOL:BURDEN
SYMBOL:BUYER
SYMBOL:CALL
SYMBOL:CANDYMAN
SYMBOL:CARDS
SYMBOL:CHAINS
SYMBOL:COLLECTION
SYMBOL:COLLECTOR
SYMBOL:COMPANION
SYMBOL:CONSEQUENCE
SYMBOL:CONTEST
SYMBOL:CONTRACT
SYMBOL:COST
SYMBOL:CROWD
SYMBOL:DAMIEN
SYMBOL:DARK-MASTER
SYMBOL:DEAL
SYMBOL:DEATH
SYMBOL:DEBT
SYMBOL:DEPENDENCY
SYMBOL:DEVIL
SYMBOL:EXIT
SYMBOL:FALL
SYMBOL:FALLEN-IDOLS
SYMBOL:FALSE CERTAINTY
SYMBOL:FALSE-PROPHETS
SYMBOL:FAME
SYMBOL:FAUST
SYMBOL:GAMBLER
SYMBOL:GAMBLING
SYMBOL:GUARDIAN
SYMBOL:GUIDING-LINE
SYMBOL:GUN
SYMBOL:HELL
SYMBOL:INITIATION
SYMBOL:LOAN
SYMBOL:LUCIFER
SYMBOL:LUCY
SYMBOL:MAGIC-BULLETS
SYMBOL:MEPHISTOPHELES
SYMBOL:MIRRORS
SYMBOL:NO-RENEGOTIATION
SYMBOL:OATH
SYMBOL:OBEDIENCE
SYMBOL:OFFER
SYMBOL:PACT
SYMBOL:PLEDGE
SYMBOL:POSSESSION
SYMBOL:PRICE
SYMBOL:PRINCE
SYMBOL:PROTECTOR
SYMBOL:REBELLION
SYMBOL:REDEMPTION
SYMBOL:REMATCH
SYMBOL:RESURRECTION
SYMBOL:RETURN
SYMBOL:RIDE
SYMBOL:ROAD
SYMBOL:ROUTE
SYMBOL:SACRED-HARP
SYMBOL:SLAVE
SYMBOL:SMALL-PRINT
SYMBOL:SOUL
SYMBOL:SOUL-SACRIFICE
SYMBOL:SOUL-SALE
SYMBOL:SQUARE
SYMBOL:SUBMISSION
SYMBOL:SUBSTITUTION
SYMBOL:TOO-LATE
SYMBOL:TRUTH
SYMBOL:UNFINISHED-DEBT
SYMBOL:WAGER
SYMBOL:WOLF
Sacred harp
Sacred permanence, transcendent love and an identity beyond the crowd
Sacrifice accepted for fame's gift
Safety and the right to refuse the announced destination
Safety explicitly exchanged for obedience
Safety, emotional relief and membership in the protected group
Safety, freedom and control of his role
Salvation is marketed as an on-demand service with the provider controlling the line.
Salvation, certainty and relief from the burden of choice
Satan
Secrecy, moral independence and public identity
Security, livelihood and membership in the protected order
Seduction into a dance governed by the devil
Self presented as ritual offering
Self-definition and allegiance to the converting authority
Self-governance, accountability and trust in ordinary appearances
Self-knowledge, belonging and access to a larger power
Sexual self-possession, freedom from condemnation and control of the accusing symbol
Shortcuts to transcendence invite a false guide
Signed contract and visible possession
Small permissions accumulate until the subject recognizes the partner only at the brink of collection.
Soul offered for rescue from an internal captor
Soul sale for mass adoration
Soul transaction for transformation
Soul wager in a performance contest
Soul, innocence and independence from the powers invoked
Soul, moral agency and an independent future
Souls wagered by superior powers
Spiritual direction and recognition of ownership
Spiritual safety, bodily endurance and freedom from the mission
Spiritual safety, secrecy and continued obligation
Square
Stability, intimacy and the ability to stop running
Stability, kingdom safety and the right to remain within known limits
Status, belonging, fear and protection within a violent hierarchy
Status, wealth, freedom from responsibility and transformed identity
Strength, escape and authority over pain
Success becomes evidence that no outside warning applies.
Success exchanges counsel for grandiosity
Success is foreseen as a force that will make the speaker less available and perhaps less real.
Success validates the pact while also making exit unthinkable.
Success, money, numbness and escape from pain
Suffering becomes evidence that the chosen identity is authentic.
Superhuman identity purchased with self-destruction
Survival depends on a masterpiece that cannot be retained or owned afterward.
Survival, authority and the chance to correct a false system
Survival, belonging and relief from the terror outside the box
Survival, intensity and whatever earlier relief the sale purchased
Survival, knowledge and access to superior power
Sweetness
Teachability, restraint and access to corrective relationships
The ability to withdraw and control one's future
The alliance is advertised as liberation while requiring a new sovereign.
The bargain is understood only after the soul has been treated as disposable.
The beloved becomes the justification for every cost and the devil becomes logistical partner.
The benefit is gone from view but collection remains physically present.
The boast makes the price sound figurative while announcing total commitment.
The bodily change follows the signature rather than preceding it.
The body, autonomy and the right to define devotion's limit
The buyer and product exchange positions until the voice asks to be buried as a friend.
The buyer cannot be expelled easily because he speaks through the seller's own wants.
The buyer who condemns the deal participates by purchasing its product.
The buyer's praise is revealed as a sales technique disconnected from the people praised.
The caller proves benevolent only after the subject has already left the protected world.
The captive defends the arrangement as informed choice while the need to defend it grows.
The chosen companion becomes the route's permanent condition.
The city lights and applause coexist with a plea to be held during breakdown.
The coins purchase an act whose consequence cannot be contained to the moment of payment.
The condemned subject overthrows the judge but inherits his throne.
The contract spreads beyond the signer into people who never consented.
The crowd's chant performs the enthronement it appears merely to describe.
The dance continues after the singer can name the partner and cost.
The dark authority is reclassified as the only reliable light.
The dealer who sells power is himself subordinate to the power supplying it.
The demand is so total that the desired rewards become the only measure of whether life is working.
The desired return would require surrendering the very transformation once sought.
The devil retains the receipt
The devil's story becomes easier to live than uncertainty about why pain exists.
The empowered persona becomes too costly to inhabit and too valuable to abandon.
The enclosure supplies what the captive needs while preventing him from testing alternatives.
The external enemy becomes an internal operating logic.
The feeder treats provision as a permanent claim on conscience.
The force answering grief demands that pain be converted into further action.
The force is recognized only after the subject's own mind has become its environment.
The gift and sacrifice are revealed as one mechanism rather than separate events.
The gift, courage, artistic emergence and visibility
The gift-giver is recognized as the source of the surrounding fear only after dependence is imagined.
The guide's identity and the encounter's cost emerge only after intimacy has begun.
The heart, innocence and the self placed on the altar
The helpers' interest becomes visible as dependence shifts toward the band.
The hit-making life fails to remove pain and instead multiplies the conditions that require escape.
The hold is interpreted as evidence of destiny rather than danger.
The host's identity becomes clear through deaths and fear around him.
The infernal identity is disclosed within seduction rather than before it.
The instruction manual becomes a participation device: repeating it performs the allegiance.
The internal protector becomes a ruler whose appetite the narrator must service.
The invitation becomes harder to refuse once attendance itself signals allegiance.
The invitation narrows into possession as the dance gains momentum.
The invitation reveals that the applicant's vitality is the commodity being consumed.
The ladder upward is built from extraction, performance and duplicated selves.
The landscape itself turns out to be an extension of the ruler's control.
The later devil-sale legend supplies terms the recording itself withholds.
The loved one's safety and the speaker's ability to separate identity from darkness
The mask allows truths and lies to circulate without a speaker who can be held still.
The medicine offered for doubt becomes the opiate that keeps the follower compliant.
The musicians learn that performance skill is being used as a legal instrument.
The new identity arrives with obligations johnny cannot contain.
The observer becomes subject to the force he intended to document.
The offer remains atmospheric, but the power demonstration functions as recruitment.
The offered rescue is refused because its identity price is recognized.
The option to be seen outside the demonized role
The patrons' scale makes the pact impossible for the human side to evaluate.
The person needing rescue becomes the power that trapped the rescuer.
The plea is urgent enough that the authority receiving the soul is not fully tested.
The possibility of change and independent judgment
The power, identity and knowledge acquired after leaving eden
The prior self, intimacy and control of the body
The promise that everything will be fine arrives from the force positioned to own what remains.
The protective identity requires continued enemies to justify its existence.
The protector claims exclusive authority to create safety and identify enemies.
The provider who answered need reveals that dependency was the ownership mechanism.
The rebel becomes a larger version of the domination he opposed.
The recruit's degradation is presented as the preparation required to receive power.
The referee is also a player and the loser discovers that rules do not restrain the cheater.
The return of love and reversal of loss
The reward becomes inseparable from surveillance, conflict and inability to leave.
The reward is present, but relief is not
The sale is presented as prior fact while the appetite it created remains unsatisfied.
The savior's business model becomes visible only after the crowd has invested identity.
The seeker requests transformation before identifying the nature or limits of the force.
The seemingly limited price disables ariel's ability to explain, negotiate and seek help.
The seller invokes fairness against a party defined by bad faith.
The seller meets what the transaction failed to erase.
The seller must recover relationships, not merely overpower the collector.
The shelter's walls become confinement after the hungry recruit accepts.
The shortcut produces a companion whose interest may be access rather than salvation.
The soul and any future claim to independent purpose
The soul and future self
The soul, alternate futures and the ability to stop performing the role
The soul, destination and right to disembark
The soul, future agency and ownership of suffering
The soul, privacy and a self not dependent on audience response
The soul, proof of ownership and the right to reverse the exchange
The subject chooses captivity because uncertainty has been made more frightening.
The subject discovers that choosing the world also chose its ruler.
The substance becomes the route, guide and destination.
The supplier reveals that every desired function has been consolidated under one destructive voice.
The train's motion makes the cost real only after the platform is gone.
The transformation continues after the narrator can hear the old self objecting.
The true price is revealed only after the apparently trivial refusal.
The useful role is revealed as programmed submission.
The victory phrase continues while another hand literally operates the successful body.
The visitor no longer asks
The voice speaks like a collector executing an existing claim rather than a negotiator seeking consent.
The warning is explicit, but desire encourages the chooser to hear danger as proof of value.
The weapon against one tyrant creates allegiance to another.
The welcome reveals that the machine predicted and manufactured the dream it now fulfills.
The witness's safety and possible future allegiance
The work contains infernal and judgment language but never states an offer or acceptance.
Third return
Total ambition as self-offered bargain
Transcendence, communion and escape from ordinary pain
Transcendence, erotic revelation and escape from the ordinary self
Transformation into the system's destructive idol
Trust, companionship and access to the listener's future
Trust, friendship, moral limits and peace
Trust, moral coherence and the ability to leave a proven betrayer
Trust, secrets and dependence on the intermediary
Union, recognition and sacred intimacy
Unknown mental force seizes perception
Unknown power summoned for transformation
Unknown voice offers truth and transformation
Vengeance, fearlessness and authority after bereavement
Victory, magical mastery and restoration of rule
Victory, status and freedom from the demon
Visibility, career and continued audience attention
Visibility, vengeance and power over the rejecting audience
Vision, speech, bodily freedom and access to rescue
Voice exchanged for transformation and access
Voice in the crowd
Voice, informed communication and control of the deadline
Vulnerability, ordinary selfhood and freedom from permanent combat
Warmth, food, safety and a place protected from want
Warning
Warning that the choice is final
Wealth, autonomy and proof of exceptional status
Wealth, security, rank and escape from vulnerability
Will, movement and perception
Worldly allegiance chosen over spiritual freedom
Worldly gain and enlarged possibility
Worldly possession, self-importance and immediate authority
Worship, confession and the authority to define salvation
Worship, discernment and the self's final loyalty
Young stranger
Youth, energy, creativity and future possibility
abandoned town
abandonment
abracadabra
abraham
absence
absent star
absent voice
absurdity
acceleration
access
accident
accidental reunion
accidents
accountability
accounting
accusation
achievement
acronym
actors
adaptation
addiction
advance announcement
affirmation
aftermath
age gap
agency
aging champion
albatross
alchemy
alcohol
alien contact
alliance
altar
alter ego
altered perception
altered space
altered state
altered voice
alternate future
alternate life
ambiguity
ambition
ambulance
anesthesia
angels
answering voice
anthem
antidote
apocalypse
apology
appearance
appetite
applause
appraisal
apprenticeship
archetype
archive
armor
arrested development
arrival
arson
artifact
artificial gem
ascent
ash
ashes
assigned role
assignment
asylum
attachment
attempted escape
attention
attraction
audience
audience laughter
authenticity
authority
authorship
autonomy
availability
avoidance
awakening
backstage
bank
bar
bargain
bargaining
battlefield
battles
beauty
belief
believer/deceiver
bells
belonging
beloved
best friend
betrayal
black
black goo
blade
blame
blame creation
blindness
blocked redemption
blood
bloom
blues
boat
bodily movement
body
body debt
body transformation
boot
border
borrowed confidence
borrowed skill
boundaries
boundary
bounty
brand
bravado
breakdown
breaking
breath
breathing
bricks
broadcast
broadcaster
broken heart
broken language
brotherhood
bulletproof
bully
burden
bureaucracy
burial
buried war
buyer-seller
cage
cages
call
camera
cameras
cancellation
canon
captain
capture
car
cards
casting
castles
catalog capture
catastrophe
category
cave
celebration
cemetery
centralization
changed self
charismatic outlaw
cheerful violence
chemical
chemical metaphor
chemicals
chemistry
chess
child
children
chlorine
choice
choir
choreography
chorus
chosen joy
chosen privacy
chronology
cinema
circus
city
class reunion
classroom
cleansing
clothing
cocktail
coded name
coffee
cold water
collective
collector
color
combat
comeback
comfort
comic violence
command
commitment
community
companion
companionship
comparison
compelled performance
compulsion
condescension
conditional intimacy
conditional reform
confession
confidante
confinement
conflict
conquest
consent
consequence
construct
consumerism
consumption
contaminated refuge
contamination
contest
continuation
continued life
contract
contradiction
control
controlled vision
controlling mother
conversion
coping
cosmic scale
cost
cost of losing
cost of winning
countdown
countercurrent
counterfeit
country identity
country rock
courtship
coven
covenant
cover
creation
crew
crime
critics
cross
crossroads
crowd
crowd reassurance
crowds
cultural memory
curse
curtain
cycle
cycles
dance
dancing
danger
dare
dark window
darkness
dawn
daylight
dead melody
deadline
deal
dealer
death
death at the table
death notice
death rattle
deathwish
debut
decade
decay
deception
declaration
deferred choice
deferred freedom
defiance
delay
delayed collection
delayed price
delayed recognition
demo
demons
denial
departure
dependence
dependency
desert
desertion
design
desire
desire for restoration
desolation
desperation
destiny
destroyer
detachment
devil
devotion
diagnosis
diamonds
dictator
difference
digital ghost
digital identity
dignity
directed emotion
disappearance
disappointment
disbelief
discarded artists
discernment
disclosure
disguise
displacement
disposability
disposable promise
dispossession
disruption
diss
dissociation
distance
distorted speech
distraction
divided attention
divided home
divine voice
division
doctor
domestic clutter
domestic doubles
domestic safety
dominoes
door
doors
doorway
dotted line
double
doubled identity
doubles
dragon
dream
dream chains
dreams
drifting
drink
drought
drowning
dues
dusk
dust
dying
early morning
earth
ease
ego
ego death
elders
eldest daughter
elevators
embedded controller
emotional coldness
empire
emptiness
enclosure
ending
endurance
enemies
enjoyment
entertainment
entitlement
environment
environmental ruin
erasure
escalation
escape
escapism
espionage
estrangement
eternal service
evidence
execution
exhaustion
exile
exit
expectation
experiment
expiration date
explanation
external authority
extinction
extraction
eyes
failed barrier
failed communication
failed control
failed distraction
failed repair
failed rest
failed reunion
failed son
failure
faith
fake death
fallen idols
falling
false choice
false friend
false light
false paradise
false prophets
false reform
false shepherd
false sun
fame
family
family permission
family voice
fan-to-artist exchange
fantasy
farewell
fashion
fatalism
fate
father
father figure
favorite object
fear
female friendship
fiddle
final hand
final recognition
final shot
fire
firework
firm boundary
first call
five
fixed destination
flattery
flight
flirtation
flooding
fog
following
forbidden world
forced lie
foresight
forest
forever
forgetting
formation
fortnight
foundation
foxes
fracture
fragile objects
fragility
fragments
franchise
freedom
friend
friends
friendship
frontiers
frost
frozen ground
fugitives
funeral
future
future memory
gallows
game
games
gate
gatekeeper
gaze
gems
gender
generational handoff
generational inheritance
ghost
ghost wind
ghosting
ghosts
gift
glamour
gold
good intent
gossip
grace
grandmother
gratitude
grave
greed
green eyes
group identity
guidance
guide
guiding light
guilt
gun
gunfire
gymnasium
hair
halo
hammer
hand
handler
handlers
handshake
hangman
harlequin
haunting
he arrives to collect movement and company.
headlights
heart
heart release
heat
heaven
hell
hellhound
hero
hidden control
hidden desire
hidden interior
hidden powers
hidden price
hidden reality
hidden rooms
hidden self
hidden track
hiding
high school
higher power
highway
hill
hindsight
history
hogweed
hold you down
hologram
home
homecoming
hometown
honey
hope
horizon
horse
hospital
hotel
hound
hounds
humiliation
hunger
hunters
hurricane
identity
identity conversion
identity shelter
identity transformation
idolatry
idols
illness
illumination
illusion
image
image management
imagined legend
imagined return
imagined scene
imagined touch
imbalance
immediacy
immediate answer
impermanence
imposed beliefs
imposed roles
impossible weather
impostor
in-world band
in-world media
inaction
indifference
individual
individuation
industry
inertia
infantilization
infection
influence
inheritance
inherited question
inherited rules
inherited script
initiation
injustice
ink
inner world
innocence
insanity
inside knowledge
instability
institution
instructions
instrumental
interchangeable names
intermittent reward
intermittent signals
internal voice
interrogation
intoxication
intrusive memory
intrusive voice
invasion
inventory
inversion
invitation
involuntary coauthor
invulnerability
irreversible choice
isolation
it becomes part of the attraction's script.
jetset
jewelry
journey
judgment
killing
king
kitchen
kneeling
knife
knocking
knowledge
labels
labor
lady
lamp
land
last hit
last stand
laughter
lawyer
leader
leaders
lease
letter
letter home
levitation
liberation
life
life begun
light
limbo
limit
line from above
lineage
listener
lists
live through you
location sharing
locked room
locks
loneliness
long arm of law
longing
loose information
loss
loss of control
lost belonging
lost boys
lost friends
lost intimacy
love
lovers
low mood
loyalty
loyalty test
lucifer
luck
lucre
lucy
lullaby
lunar valley
luxury
machine
madness
magic
magic bullets
malignant narcissism
managed victory
manager
mansion
manuscript
marketplace
marriage
marrow
mask
mass
master
masters
mazes
measurement
media
medical repair
medication
melancholy
membership
memorial
memory
memory lane
memory trigger
mental territory
mentor
mercy
mercy denied
mercy killing
merged voices
merging
messenger
midnight return
migration
mirror
mirrors
miscommunication
mismatched signs
misperception
missed kiss
missing information
mobility
momentum
money
monitoring
monsters
monument
moon
moral accounting
moral authority
morale
morning exposure
mortality
mother
motion
mountain
movement
multiplication
murder
music
musical box
mutual rescue
mystery
myth
mythic war
nakedness
names
narration
narrative installation
nation
nature
near death
near victory
negative control
neglect
negotiation
neighbors
neon
new soundtrack
nickname
night
night terror
nightlife
nightmares
nihilism
no attachments
noise
normalization
nostalgia
number
numbing
numbness
oath
obedience
observer
obsession
ocean
offered abundance
office
old diaries
old pictures
older woman
omen
one eye
one missed step
one-way passage
onyx night
opalite
open book
orbit
ordinary rooms
organs
origin
other plans
outlaw
outsider
outsider gaze
ownership
pair
pair bond
paired opposites
parade
parents in chorus
parking
partition
partner screening
party
passage
passing car
passive language
pattern
pause
pauses
payment boundary
pebble
pen
perception
performance
permanence
permanent slavery
persona
pet name
phonetics
photograph
photographs
physical archetypes
piano
pimp label
pirate signal
planet
play
plea
plurality
pockets
poets
poison
possession
possibility
postmortem
power
power grid
power reversal
prayer
pre-fame self
predetermined return
prediction
prequel
prescription
present moment
preserved feeling
preserved image
pressure
price
pride
prison
privacy
problem-reaction-solution
procession
product
productivity
profit
projection
promise
promised land
promised permanence
proof
propaganda
property
prophecy
prostitute
protection
protector
protégé
provenance
proximity
proxy ruler
psychological war
pub
public action
public anthem
public figures
public intimacy
public judgment
public labeling
public mask
punishment
punk
puppet
purchased memory
purification
pursuit
qualified early repayment variant
rabbit hole
radiance
radio
rage
rain
readiness
rear guard
rebellion
rebirth
reciprocity
reclamation
recognition
reconciliation
reconditioning
reconstructed memory
recovery
recruitment
recurrence
reflected light
reflection
reframing
refuge
refusal
regression
regret
rehearsal
reins
reinvention
reissue
rejection
relapse
relational conflict
release
remaster
rematch
renewal
renewed stakes
rent-free mind
repair
repeated access
repeated choice
repeated play
repetition
replacement
replacements
repossession
reputation
requests
rescue
reset
residue
resistance
resistance inside the pact
resource
responsibility
restitution
restoration
resurrection
return
returning memory
reunion
revealed identity
revelation
revenge
reversal
reverse chronology
revision
revolution
reward
rewritten fate
rhythm
ride
ridicule
right and wrong
right hand
ring
rising
risk
ritual
rival
river
road
rock band
role
roll call
romance
romantic intervention
romanticization
romanticized harm
room
roots
rot
route
routine
routing
ruins
rules
rumination
rumor
rumors
running
rural identity
rust
sabotage
sacred branding
sacred geography
sacred text
sacrifice
sacrificed soul
safety
salmacis
sanctuary
saturated color
savior
savior complex
scale
scandal
scarlet memory
scars
school
school memory
schoolyard
screen icon
scripture
scrutiny
sea
search
searching
seasonal deadline
secrecy
secret
secret garden
secrets
security
self-audit
self-authorship
self-command
self-control
self-improvement
self-indictment
self-initiation
self-marketing
self-mythology
self-presentation
self-recovery
self-sabotage
self-trust
self-vindication
self-warning
self-worth
senses
sentence
separation
service
seven
sex
sexual wordplay
shadow
shame
shared identity
shelter
sheriff
ship
ships
shore lights
shrinking estate
shrinking world
sibling pressure
sides
sign-off
signal
signals
signature
silence
silent god
sin
sincerity
siren
sky
skyline
sliding commitment
small print
smallness
smile
smoke
snakes
snowflake
sobriety
social gaze
social image
social participation
society
solitude
song trigger
songs for sale
soul
soul claim
soul sale
source
sovereignty
special access
spectacle
spectators
speed
spilled wine
spinning helm
spiritual appeal
spiritual sight
sports
spotlight
stage
stage construction
stage lights
staged world
stained clothing
stains
star
star system
static
station
status
stewardship
stone
stones
story
stranded witness
strangers
street
strings
submarine
submission
substitute
substitute community
substitute heaven
substitution
succession
successor
suffering
suitors
summer
sun
sunk cost
sunset
sunshine
superstition
suppressed grief
suppressed truth
surrender
surveillance
survival
suspended future
suspended time
swarm
sweetness
symbols
synchronized response
tables
tape
tasks
team
tears
teenagers
teeth
temptation
terms
territory
test
testimony
the body becomes the collection notice.
theatrical mother
theft
thought crime
thousand lives
threat
threshold
tides
tiger
time
time loop
time passage
time travel
time traveler
timing
title reveal
tone
total loss
total price
tour machine
tower
towers
town
toxic partner
toy box
traffic
train
transaction
transfer
transformation
transition
translation
transmission
travel
traveler
tribe
trigger
trophy
trumpets
trust
truth
truth as weapon
turnstile
twenty-versus-ten offer
typewriter
ufo
ugly world
umbrella
unanswered charges
unanswered need
unanswered question
unbearable cost
uncertainty
understanding adult
unequal judgment
unfinished album
unfinished collection
unfinished encounter
unfinished story
unfinished wager
unhealed wound
uniform
union
unity
unknown hand
unnamed buyer
unpaid emotional labor
unpaid priest
unposted life
unprepared child
unresolved cause
unresolved question
urgency
utopia
vacant line
validation
vampire
vehicle
vengeance
venom
verdict
vessel
victory
vigil
vindication
violence
visibility
voice
voice note
vow
vulnerability
waiting
wake-up
wakefulness
wall
wandering
wandering son
war
warning
warning signs
warnings
wasteland
watcher
watching
water
wealth
weapon
weaponization
weather
wedding
western
wheel
whispers
whistle
white dress
whiteness
wife
wilderness of mirrors
wind
window
windows
wing
wish list
witch
withdrawal
withheld command
withheld word
witness
witnesses
wolves
woman’s voice
women
wood
wounded identity
wounds
wreckage
writer
youngest child
youth
zero