“How can we go back to being friends when we just shared a bed?”
This lyric sung by sombr is a fantastic example of how a sentence can burst with meaning. This subtle wordplay encodes tangled truths and seductive exchanges of one’s private life.
Me, looking at it from the fascination point of view, I see this as a beautiful example of information compression. I am right in thinking that way, though not in the classical sense.
The problem is that this isn’t a lossless compression. It’s quite the opposite, actually. We don’t know what actually happened. There is an infinite number of scenarios that fit the compressed output.
What it tells us is that we can use such a compression technique to encode a theme rather than specific values; it isn’t giving you the facts of what happened, but a vibe that is identifiable even without the details.