“Mark on You” is about you, with a mark on you, and what will happen to you as a result.

Track: “Mark on You”
Album: Bleed Out (2022)

The theme of Bleed Out helps here, but “Mark on You” doesn’t have to be complicated. It’s easy to be reductive about stuff like this, but “Mark on You” is a slightly upgraded version of “Foreign Object.” That’s not to say it’s a better song, just a little less likely to be interpreted as a joke. Both of them are about the same thing. The situations are different and the people have different relationships to each other, but in both the characters realize they have been pitted against each other and buddy, it’s time for some violence.

“Mark on You” is after-the-fact. The heist or whatever stand-in for a heist has already happened and everyone has moved on. Despite that, our narrator sees this one loose thread and knows they need to do something. “Can’t trust anybody // even the tough ones crack,” they say, before several times over insisting that they are going to come for you. That’s really all there is to it. You were involved, it seems, and now you need to fear what comes next. On another album we might need more than that, but on Bleed Out and with the strong performances on “Mark on You” we don’t need a single other thing.