Choke
Breaking Chains: Embracing Liberation in Antigone Rising's 'Choke'
Lyrics
Not long ago
Reflecting on a recent past
I was inside
Physically present in a situation
Your downward spiral
Observing someone's downward emotional decline
Dying slow
Slowly losing vitality or enthusiasm
Distracted life
Engaged in a distracted, unfocused life
Keep it all bound
Keeping everything restrained or controlled
Deserted, not another soul around
Feeling isolated with no one else around
Fair weathered friends
Friends who are only supportive in good times
Convenience wins
Choosing convenience over genuine relationships
Keep it, keep all of your madness
Hold onto your chaos
Drown in all you sadness
Overwhelmed by sorrow
Choke on all your pain
Suffering from emotional pain
Cause I don't want to
Unwilling to experience the mentioned pain
You had me pinned
Being controlled or dominated
Under your thumb
Under someone's influence or oppression
My mind divided
Mentally conflicted for self-protection
For protection
Creating an illusion for safety
Illusion with
Using mirrors and screens to distort reality
Mirrors and screens
Living in a dichotomy of black and white
Black and white dragging
Navigating through the uncertain middle ground
Through the in between
Bidding farewell to friends for survival
Farewell my friends
Choosing survival over relationships
Survival wins
Retain your chaos for survival
Keep it, keep all of your madness
Embrace and endure your madness
Drown in all your sadness
Immersed in the overwhelming sadness
Choke on all you pain
Suffering from intense emotional pain
Cause I don't want to
Unwilling to share in the mentioned pain
Keep it, keep all of your sorrow
Hold onto your sorrow
Suffer through tomorrow
Enduring suffering until tomorrow
Choke on all your shame
Choking on the shame
Choke on all your madness, choke
Choking on madness
Keep it, keep all of your madness
Embrace and endure your madness
Drown in all your sadness
Immersed in the overwhelming sadness
Choke on all your pain
Suffering from intense emotional pain
Cause I don't want to
Unwilling to share in the mentioned pain
Keep it, keep all of your sorrow
Hold onto your sorrow
Choke on all your shame
Choking on the shame
Keep it, keep all of your darkness
Retain your darkness
Don't forget to mark this
Remember this bitter holiday
Bitter holiday
A day filled with bitterness and regret
Choke!
Intense emotion, possibly anger or frustration
You asked a thousand times, choke!
Repetition of a request to choke
Please write a song that's mine, choke!
Asking for a personal, authentic expression through music
Well this is what I say to you, choke!
Responding to the previous request with defiance
You drank yourself half blind, choke!
Excessive alcohol consumption leading to impaired vision
I live inside your lie, choke!
Living within someone else's deception
But I'm not meant to die that way, choke!
Refusing to succumb to a deceitful fate
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