It's a particularly sad piece, even for the album it comes from, about a man who has been kicked out of his lover's life and finds himself wondering how it got that way.

Lonely Piano Piece: Several examples, most notably 'Call Me' off of The Sound of Madness.Laser-Guided Karma: 'Bully.' The bully who makes their victims feel lonely and suicidal is predicted to Die Alone.Considering it's the soundtrack for a Band of Brothers mercenaries who've been through a lot such as The Expendables, it fits. Knight in Sour Armor: One could take the POV character of the song 'Diamond Eyes' as this.She's later rescued by an unrelated person who is implied to routinely track down and rescue kidnapped victims as a hobby/second job. I Have Your Wife: The music video for 'Sound of Madness' features a kidnapped little girl, who is being held for ransom.The one thing you leave behind is how did you love, how did you love? Dying Alone: The predicted karmic fate of The Bully in 'Bully'.Drugs Are Bad: 'Save Me' is sung from the viewpoint of a drug addict begging for help.Driven to Suicide: The narrator of '45' stares down the barrel of a gun with 'no real reason to accept the way things have changed.' Subverted in the music video, in which the protagonist decides not to go through with it.Despair Event Horizon: The lyrics of '45' tell of a young man crossing over this, and having to deal with the resulting pain.Creepy Children Singing: 'Freedom, la-la-la-la, freedom, follow me!' from their 2015 hit 'Cut the Cord'.Cover Version: Their first major hit was a cover of Lynyrd Skynyrd's 'Simple Man'.Character Check: The album Attention Attention is supposedly designed with this arc in mind: the POV character is in a very miserable and negative emotional situation, which they try to work out of, changing themselves in the process.Caps Lock: Every track on Attention Attention, as well as the album title, is stylized in all caps, with the exception of ' special'.

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