George Clinton once wrote, "Free your mind and your ass will follow." Dully Sykes counters with, "Free your guilt and your heart will break." It is a necessary counterweight to the bravado of the genre. It is the morning after the party, when the neon lights are off, and you are left alone with the smell of stale beer and the weight of your own mistakes.
is the clearest example of this divergence. Where a typical P-Funk track might lean into absurdist humor or social commentary, this song is a raw nerve. It is the sound of a man who has realized he is the villain in his own love story.