feels like this
Coming of Age: Struggles and Resilience in Cassie Joy's 'Feels Like This'
Lyrics
Elisa drove up in her mother's car
Elisa arrives in her mother's car.
We can't pay for gas so we don't drive far
Financial constraints limit their ability to travel far due to gas expenses.
She says "it's getting harder to just exist"
Elisa expresses the increasing difficulty of mere existence.
And I don't think it should feel like this
The narrator questions the feeling that life should not be this way.
Morgan can't go to therapy
Morgan cannot afford therapy within the current economic situation.
She can't afford it in the economy
Financial struggles prevent Morgan from seeking therapy.
Leaves the freezer running to ice her wrists
Morgan resorts to harmful coping mechanisms, like icing her wrists.
What else do you do when it feels like this
The narrator questions alternative actions when faced with such emotional distress.
Our coming of age never came
A sense of disillusionment as the expected transition to adulthood did not happen.
Generation full of dreamers left awake
The current generation, full of dreamers, remains awake and unfulfilled.
And don't you dare try and tell me to change
The narrator rejects the idea of changing their perspective despite challenges.
When I just know it shouldn't feel this way
The conviction that life shouldn't feel this way persists.
Blake writes notes on his bedroom wall
Blake uses notes on his wall as a coping mechanism, but it doesn't alleviate the pain.
But sickly sweet can't soothe the fall
Sweet gestures are insufficient to ease Blake's emotional descent.
Fogs up his lungs to go adrift
Blake turns to self-destructive behavior to escape.
Where else do you go when it feels like this
The narrator questions where to turn when confronted with overwhelming emotions.
Sierra misses all my texts
Sierra is emotionally distant, missing messages, burdened by her disrupted plans.
Her mind is heavy, her plans are wrecked
Sierra copes by writing songs about the life she wished she had.
Writes songs about the life she missed
The narrator questions alternative actions in the face of emotional turmoil.
What else do you do when it feels like this
A repeated expression of the lack of fulfillment in their coming of age.
Our coming of age never came
The current generation remains awake, unfulfilled in their dreams.
Generation full of dreamers left awake
The narrator rejects external pressure to change their perspective.
And don't you dare try and tell me to change
The persistent belief that life should not feel this way.
When I just know it shouldn't feel this way
The narrator reflects on a stagnant, unchanging scene.
I look out on a still life scene
Despite growing older, the narrator still feels stuck in a youthful mindset.
I've outgrown the world but I'm still nineteen
The absence of a defining moment or transition to adulthood to reminisce about.
No coming of age to reminisce
A repeated conviction that life should not feel this way.
I just know it shouldn't feel like this
A reaffirmation that life should not have this unsettling quality.
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