Forbidden

‘Forbidden’ by Preoccupations is a 2016 alternative track on the album ‘Preoccupations’. The lyrics put you on a bleak tour of belonging and translation, with the world rendered alien and people reduced to something controlled and disposable. Images of graveside drifting and a suicide machine point to a mechanised sense of erasure, while the closing line turns uneasy fascination into a kind of possession. The vocal delivery reads urgent and condemnatory, as if the song is watching language fail and then watching power step in to replace it.