The next two songs come from another platform, Reverbnation, the platform which we've looked at before due to its "about me" page.
The first one of these is titled This is a Complex.
This particular song is unique in one way, specifically, it features another person singing...which is a rapper with a heavy british accent. Not sure what region though.
While it's a wild theory, considering that one of Jeff's and Ellen's early foreign trips involved Birmingham, it's possible they met the guy there...or something, idk. Let''s just get to the song.
This is a Complex
(This is a complex, this-this is a complex)
You got up in the daily crunch
Too many ways to say too much
The words go south, stuck in your mouth
Everyone, it's time to spit it out
They draw the lines you stay inside
Everyone's got somethin' to hide
Say it again, under your breath
Bla, bla, bla, it's all in your head
(Hurry, hurry, hurry up)
Hurry, hurry, hurry up
They won't stay around for long
You gotta make the most of all this life
Everything you do is a waste of time
How can we not fall behind?
We're just runnin' on the spot,
We're just runnin' on the spot
This is a complex
(This is a complex, this-this is a complex)
(Yo, listen, I'm sittin' in a complex, chillin'
Kinda two faced, but the kid's just willin'
To be who you are, and not who I am
I gotta fit in, just to be a better man
I been bein' this way since a little tiny puppy
Bollocks, now we're here to rock the party
D. T. V. / as in Despite The Virus
YEAH, IT'S TIME TO GET IT STARTED
These blokes go crazy over beats and the band
Givin' everything up and lettin' it all hang
Rubbish everywhere, rubbish in the air
This is a complex, we'll get you out of here
I hope you understand everything that I'm sayin'
True to one self, no copycat playin'
Remember, this is a complex
You are a complex
Get on the dance floor, happy) / sang by an unknown british rapper
(Hurry, hurry, hurry up)
Hurry, hurry, hurry up
They won't stay around for long
You gotta make the most of all this life
Everything you do is a waste of time
How can we not fall behind?
We're just runnin' on the spot
We're just runnin' on the spot
This is a complex
(This is a complex, this-this is a complex)
Too much thought could lead to action
Just go buy the next distraction
It gets you close, but not enough
Can you keep up with keepin' up?
Don't stop movin', stick with the crowd
You've come this far, so why stop now?
Do the right thing, use the right words
Bla, bla, bla, but nobody heard
(Hurry, hurry, hurry up)
Hurry, hurry, hurry up
They won't stay around for long
You gotta make the most of all this life
Everything you do is a waste of time
How can we not fall behind?
We're just runnin' on the spot
We're just runnin' on the spot
This is a complex
(This is a complex, this-this is a complex)
The theme of the song is compliance to society and not being able to speak your true thoughts.
This is...concerning, considering that Jeff is a rapist and an emotional manipulator. If the song is about him...then it might have been a coping mechanism.
Then again, as Ellen wrote this song, it could also be about her. We don't really know whether she writes the songs based on what Jeff tells her, or Jeff is only the singer/composer and nothing more.
"The complex" the song talks about seems to be some sort of a rehab...or, at least, this is what it appears to be.
I think it's moreso meant to represent psychological complexes.
A complex is a structure in the unconscious that is objectified as an underlying theme—like a power or a status—by grouping clusters of emotions, memories, perceptions and wishes in response to a threat to the stability of the self. In psychoanalysis, it is antithetical to drives.
An example of a complex would be as follows: if a person had a leg amputated as a child, this would influence the person's life in profound ways, even upon overcoming the physical handicap. The person may have many thoughts, emotions, memories, feelings of inferiority, triumphs, bitterness, and determinations centering on that one aspect of life. If these thoughts were troubling and pervasive, Jung might say the person had a "complex" about the leg.
The reality of complexes is widely agreed upon in the area of depth psychology, a branch of psychology asserting that the vast majority of the personality is determined and influenced by unconscious processes. Complexes are common features of the psychic landscape, according to Jung's accounting of the psyche, and often become relevant in psychotherapy to examine and resolve, most especially in the journey toward individuation or wholeness. Without resolution, complexes continue to exert unconscious, maladaptive influence on our thoughts, feelings, and behavior and keep us from achieving psychological integration.
In short, they're subconscious grievances with oneself, something a person subconsciously loathes.
For example,
Ellen has complexes about her breast size.
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So, what is the complex referred to in the song?
Let's analyze the lyrics some more.
The first verse is about living your life, being afraid of what you speak out loud, having to hide your true feelings due to societal boundaries...this is, again, extremely concerning in the context of Jeff writing and singing these lyrics...with the narrator telling everyone to just "spit it out" and that the roadblocks are purely mental.
In the chorus, the narrator tells you to hurry up and get over this complex because the lfie's too short for that, and without that push, nothing in your life would change.
Then, we get to the rap by that unknown british rapper, where he, as a "kid", explains how he had to hide his true feelings from everyone for all of his life to comply with society, and how he, in the complex, has found solace and other people with the same problem, to support each other in their quest for change...or something.
The third verse is about using drugs as a temporary pleasure and an escape from the depressing reality...and, then, how, when you finally decided to speak what you wanted to speak all this time...there's no one left to listen.
So, yeah, the song is...pretty fucked up, if you think about it.
After all, if Jeff's complex is "women think I'm an emotional manipulator", as Ellen has expressed a few times (which we'll get to in a later subsection), then this can be seen the same way as those very same rape academy groups Ellen spoke so much about.
If it's about Ellen...then she seems to have a very simillar mentality...which seems very consistent with how she handles conflicts and relations with her friends nowadays.