"I wish I found some better sounds no one's ever heard,
I wish I had a better voice that sang some better words,
I wish I found some chords in an order that is new,
I wish I didn't have to rhyme every time I sang,"
- despite being an artist, Boris realizes that he's not creating anything exactly new. At some point he envies Maria the Boglodite, because no matter that she's still not the best artist in the world and she struggles greatly with making stuff look realistic, she can draw whatever the Hell she thinks about. Boris learned how to draw by copying what he saw around him - he saw a table - he was drawing it until it looked perfectly realistic from any angle possible. He wants to create something new to express his feelings deeper, but can't do it. He plays piano pretty much the same way, never using any notes.
"I was told when I get older all my fears would shrink,
But now I'm insecure and I care what people think."
- when he was a pup he was told that when he grows up he's going to be big and strong and will laugh at the troubles he had when he was a pup. Well, their story didn't go as intended. But he didn't get to live in the clan for long, and in a society where boglodites are feared he actually feels quite insecure and tries not to give them any reason to think of him as of a dangerous monster.
"My name's 'Blurryface' and I care what you think"
- ...still, at some point he's a MIB agent and nobody should remember how he really at the same time he still cares what they think.
"Wish we could turn back time, to the good ol' days,
When our momma sang us to sleep but now we're stressed out."
- their mom was a pretty shitty parent, and she only sang them something when they were very little pups, just because she felt obliged to do it. But back then it didn't matter to the kits, they just felt secure and still thought that their family will protect them. Now they both miss that feeling, because they both feel like they are the ones who should make others feel safe.
"Sometimes a certain smell will take me back to when I was young,
How come I'm never able to identify where it's coming from,
I'd make a candle out of it if I ever found it,
Try to sell it, never sell out of it, I'd probably only sell one,"
- Their "home smell" is metal + dust + fuel and grease + space. It is very hard to recreate,and it's almost impossible to get what exactly smells like that. But at the same time even if the smell would be captured, there aren't many boglodites he knows who grew up in a similar, poor part of the clan and would be interested in such a thing.
"It'd be to my brother, 'cause we have the same nose,
Same clothes homegrown a stone's throw from a creek we used to roam,
But it would remind us of when nothing really mattered,
Out of student loans and treehouse homes we all would take the latter. "
- Yazz would be the only one who'd take one and who would appreciate it. They grew up together, and when Boris was younger and was just starting to roam around, it was his elder brother who shown him what is what and where he should go and where he shouldn't. Boris barely remembers this by the time of Creatureverse happening. Yazz does, and if he could, he'd roam with them still. 32 is a very young for a boglodite, whose species live up to 250-300 years.
"We used to play pretend, give each other different names,
We would build a rocket ship and then we'd fly it far away, "
- they run off their clan on a ship their dad built and they helped to fix it for most of the time. When landing on different planets on their way, they had to "play pretend" and sometimes even dress as locals so they won't run into problems as they were considered pests on certain planets.
"Used to dream of outer space but now they're laughing at our face,
Saying, "wake up, you need to make money."
- when they landed on Earth and were separated, they used to dream of returning to space and roaming the universe together, but not many people took them seriously, even if they knew their origin.