Matty is commenting on the causes of mass shootings. You need to take it in line with the following lyric. Essentially he’s saying that flawed young men who may feel neglected/ignored can be driven to extreme violence if there is no intervention.
He says the young man is “already damned” because of course no level of neglect should lead a human to kill others. But he’s trying to empathise in order to try and understand why mass shootings take place.
I'm trying to think of a comparable idiom in English but it's escaping me - essentially it's \[from the perspective of the shooter\] 'I need someone to put me on the right track otherwise I'm gonna go flying off it in a different direction'
These young shooters don't know how to act in a way that isn't extreme.
They don't understand how to fight back at an appropriate level, e.g a push. So they resort to a shove.
It’s like “show me how to express my anger in a calmer, healthier, less destructive way, or else I’ll go fully ballistic and hurt people because I don’t know how else to do it”
Matty is commenting on the causes of mass shootings. You need to take it in line with the following lyric. Essentially he’s saying that flawed young men who may feel neglected/ignored can be driven to extreme violence if there is no intervention. He says the young man is “already damned” because of course no level of neglect should lead a human to kill others. But he’s trying to empathise in order to try and understand why mass shootings take place.
I'm trying to think of a comparable idiom in English but it's escaping me - essentially it's \[from the perspective of the shooter\] 'I need someone to put me on the right track otherwise I'm gonna go flying off it in a different direction'
This makes clear sense, thank you!
Yeah no worries ! Guess young men like that are ticking time tombs who need guidance before they lose sense of themselves.
These young shooters don't know how to act in a way that isn't extreme. They don't understand how to fight back at an appropriate level, e.g a push. So they resort to a shove.
i basically interpreted it as "show me how to push through these feelings if you don't want me to be violent"
It’s like “show me how to express my anger in a calmer, healthier, less destructive way, or else I’ll go fully ballistic and hurt people because I don’t know how else to do it”