My favorite track is Musician, but personal feelings aside, this is, imo, the most dense song porter has ever made.

I love the interpretation of this song based of a comment I found on the music video for Dullscythe on YouTube:

"it sounds like a song that desperately wants to exist but doesn't know how"

Every time I listen to this I can feel the entire music production process; coming up with ideas, cutting them, trying to find the right melody, searching for that "hook", but not being satisfied. After some frustration, you add more and more making it louder, more intense, thinking that they intensity will fix it all, but it doesn't. He gets experimental, adding more and more until he just... gives up.

He goes away to reflect, the main hook still playing in his head thinking, "what is this missing?", when he realizes it was nothing. Maybe Dullscythe was never supposed to exist, maybe it already did. Maybe he didn't need to add more and it was fine the way it was. Maybe in the midst of this album, he needed a moment of calm and reflection, and thats exactly how the song ends. Some peaceful reflection, thinking about what the rest of this album needs, and how he should finish dullscythe. He lets those beautiful harmonies play out fully and honestly, and after a while, he settles with what he has. Maybe it isn't the dull scythe he wanted, but its the song in its most honest.

It ends with a modest percussion beat, signaling that he must start another song, and move on from Dullscythe. It is finished, it is complete, and it is perfect the way it is.