boxes

'boxes' by Moses Sumney is an alternative track from the album 'græ' (2020). Its lyrics are concerned with how labels and identification create contention, and with the urge to build rigid structures that contain people. The writing keeps circling the same anxiety, from the demand for naming to the resulting dissatisfaction, while insisting on the need for some interior space to exist. At one point, it reduces the idea to construction, with the line “boxes to put people in”. The tone is vigilant and self-questioning, as if every attempt at order risks turning into confinement.