Songfacts®:

• "Dangerous" is a track by Sleep Token included on their fourth studio album, Even In Arcadia. The song is the work of Vessel, the band's frontman and high priest of melodic brooding. After writing the track, Vessel handed it off to their resident sonic architect Carl Bown, who has shaped much of the band's discography with an ear for the epic and the unsettling.
• "Dangerous" explores the intoxicating, sometimes destructive pull of a relationship that exerts a powerful hold over Vessel. He sings about being pulled back into the orbit of someone - or something - he knows will destroy him. Vessell is seduced, repelled, captivated, and cornered all at once.
• Because this is Sleep Token, there's a second layer beneath the angst-ridden surface: the track doubles as an allegory about Sleep, the band's invented deity figure; a kind of romantic-demigod concept. Even after trying to break free, Vessel finds himself haunted and tempted by Sleep's presence. The song continues Sleep Token's tradition of using metaphor and ambiguity to address both personal relationships and the band's overarching lore.
• Some fans believe "Dangerous" is also a veiled commentary on Vessel's uneasy relationship with fame; a reading supported by other tracks on Even In Arcadia like "Caramel" and "Damocles," where Vessel muses on his discomfort with stardom.
• Carl Bown's production doesn't so much support the song as envelop it. The track fuses atmospheric rock with trap beats, dubstep stabs, and a dense mist of reverb and backing vocals. Vessel's voice floats in and out of the fog, sometimes barely audible, mirroring the song's themes of overwhelming emotion and blurred boundaries.