A creature built for gentleness has to explain why it keeps surviving like a threat. “Pisces” makes the fish image both zodiacal self-portrait and moral trap: the speaker calls herself selfless, innocent, loyal, skittish, unable to promise safety, always moving between beginning and end. The refrain’s split — One being brings life / Another runs for death — is not just contrast but identity under pressure, two natures occupying one body.

That doubleness is why the vocal contrast matters here: Tatiana Shmayluk’s clean, almost fragile singing and her extreme harsh voice do not feel like a gimmick, because the lyric has already made tenderness and violence inseparable. The recording gives the body a steady, controlled metal groove rather than chaos, so the transformations feel disciplined, like instinct finding form. By the end, the graceful Pisces image has been dragged into human cruelty: hooks, nets, cutting tables, emeralds are ripped away. What remains is not innocence preserved, but innocence recognized as something the world knows how to butcher.