2013-05-29 The Showbox (Seattle)
Setlist
Banter
This is a song about how, from the moment of your birth, you don't owe anybody a look at your true face. It's called 'Animal Mask'.
There's a longish story about this one. Just to explain a thing, in professional wrestling, [cheering] this is going to take a long time. So I mean, I try always to see the good in all people, and to see things from people's point of view, but when someone tells me there's two types of people, I say, oh, I'm not going to trust you ever again. You can say there are at least two types of people, this I can respect. No fewer than two types of people. You're either an A or a B, no, I know that's not true. However, in wrestling there are two types of people. Which I think is why so many people who believe in the real world there are two types of people are continually stymied by believing this, and it turns out that things are more complicated, and this is frustrating, you can't reduce things to simple equations like that. And in fact, the more people, the more complexity, and [inaudible]. But you go to wrestling matches, and there are in fact two types of people. The good guys and the bad guys, and it's so comforting and lovely. You know the bad guy when you see him! He's way [longer?] than the other guy. You know the good guy when you see him, because he's not as interesting as the good guy! And the good guys are called baby faces, or faces for short. If you are a bad guy, and then you see the light someday and you grow to regret your evil deeds, you turn face, and you become a good guy. It's called a face turn. And if you are a good guy, and you hear the call of the wickedness that beckons from beneath the floor, that tells you to go get what's yours, that tells you there's something for you down there, and it belongs to you, and all you gotta do is open yourself up to the darkness and depths of evil, and you can have it. If you're a good guy, and you feel like that, you can turn heel. (>Heel Turn 2)