“I need to get her out the picture/She’s really fucking up my frame,” Tyler sings, more explicitly confirming that the relationship in the story told on IGOR is facing a crisis. Here, the conflict between the narrator and his boyfriend is amplified. Comedian Jerrod Carmichael opens it with the phrase “sometimes you gotta close the door to open a window” after which the listener is immediately assaulted by an aggressive bassline and a lo-fi drum machine.

“NEW MAGIC WAND” is by far the most lyrically and instrumentally dense track on IGOR. Perhaps the most important part of “RUNNING OUT OF TIME” is the line “Take your mask off/I need her out the picture.” The next song “NEW MAGIC WAND” reveals more details about the narrator’s male lover being distracted by his ex-girlfriend and the conflict caused. Arguably the first significant turning point in the LP’s narrative is “RUNNING OUT OF TIME.” Tyler, in a pitched-up voice sings “I’ve been running out of spells to make you love me.” This is where the story becomes more solidified with less duality, although it still appears later on, albeit sometimes more subtly.

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