When asked during a poetry reading in 2010 what “Emtee” was about, Otep said:
“At the time when I wrote it I was very sad and very angry about being sad. To me that song is about, uh, like- the surrealists understood that there is a void in life. There is a hole here, and people are always trying t...
Eye remember
Suffering
Eye remember
... feeling the sting
Of childhood
& injections
Holy bruises
Sweet infections
Soaked
In
A
Stew
Like drowning
Cockroaches
Whose only ..
Crime
Was the
Greed of
Inherent
Hunger
U know where
Eye'm fragile
U know how
To kill
........kill
All fall away
All fall today
PAIN!!
Pain
I can't keep
This rage in me
Can't keep
Pretending
Can't be
This emtee
...anymore
I can
Make
It go away
... make it go away