“Doberman” is one of the most introspective and at the same time cryptic tracks on Lonely People with Power. In dense images of introspection, religious doubt and mental exhaustion, the song describes a person who finds himself at the center of an invisible prison – a “Panopticon”, in which you are...
All decline I seeded from my fright
Each dim year giving less to the light
Suddenly present now
All hail now the panopticon
See all around me
All of my failure
Trapped under this dominion
Shaking into seizure
All hail now the panopticon
See all around me
All of my failure
Trapped under this dominion
Shaking into seizure now
A perverse stirring
I fell out of rhythm
Sadness left me uneven
A masking confusion
Across the vast wilds of time
I laid the grain down the coastline
I wanted the Garden of Eden
But fed my misgivings
I wrestled with strength just like you
I ate from the apple of my ruse
And I stared into the mirror of my truth
All the time death as my muse
All hail now the panopticon
See all around me
All of my failure
Trapped under this dominion
Shaking into seizure now
Naked and eyeless
My iris has only black views
All my misguidance
Hiding as torment grew
Alone on an island
Knowing the exits too
I gave into silence
Knowing the exits too
Facing the violence
I wrestled with death just like you
In this panopticon
I sought death in this panopticon
Suddenly present now
Suddenly present now (All hail)
Suddenly present now
Doberman was written by Daniel Tracy & George Clarke & Kerry McCoy & Shiv Mehra & Christopher Paul Johnson.
Doberman was produced by Justin Meldal-Johnsen.
Deafheaven released Doberman on Fri Mar 28 2025.