The Enemy
Breaking Chains: The Battle Within
Lyrics
When you were young there’s people talking
When you were young, there were conversations happening around you.
You feel so lost in all the noise
You feel overwhelmed and confused amidst all the surrounding noise.
Try to find a voice to fill the void
You try to find a way to express yourself and fill the emptiness you feel.
You weren’t like all the other girls and boys
You were different from other children.
A little more troublesome easily irritable maybe permanently annoyed
You were a bit more troublesome, easily irritated, and possibly always annoyed.
There’s not much change from here to now
Not much has changed from then till now.
But I don’t think you thought you had the choice
You didn't believe you had the freedom to choose.
Where’s your head at what you feeling
Questioning your state of mind and emotions.
Come on baby it’s nearly the weekend
Encouraging someone to push through to the weekend.
Then you can drown out all your problems
Suggesting drowning problems with alcohol and pills.
With the bottles and the pills think the
Believing the solution lies at the bottom of the bottle.
Solutions at the bottom
I know you’re turning into who they want you to be
Feeling pressured to conform to others' expectations.
Your over tired overworked and under everything
Exhausted, overworked, and lacking in everything.
In a system that’s been keeping you down beneath
Struggling within a system that keeps you down.
This city four walls yeah that’s the enemy
Referring to the city and its confined spaces as the enemy.
I think you’re right
An agreement or acknowledgment of someone's perspective.
I think the punchline is they never cared to ask about your better state of mind
Realization that others didn't bother to inquire about mental well-being.
You said I don’t want to scare you but I’m scared myself I don’t wanna die
Expressing fear of one's own mortality.
I said I think you’re gonna make it
Offering reassurance that the person will make it through.
Gonna come out fine the other side
Believing that the person will emerge fine after the struggle.
Where’s your head at what you feeling
Similar to line 9 - questioning someone's emotions and mental state.
Come on baby it’s nearly the weekend
Encouraging someone to hold on until the weekend.
Then we can drown out all the wrong ones
Planning to drown out negative influences.
Who underestimate the power from the
Underestimating the strength of those at the bottom.
People at the bottom
I know you’re turning into who they want you to be
Feeling exhausted, overworked, and lacking, as mentioned earlier.
Your over tired overworked and under everything
Struggling within a system that suppresses.
In a system that’s been keeping you down beneath
Labeling the city and confined spaces as the enemy.
This city four walls yeah that’s the enemy
One foot out the door at a time one foot out the door
Repetition emphasizing the process of moving away, possibly from a suffocating situation.
One foot out the door at a time one foot out the door
-One foot out the door at a time one foot out the door
-One foot out the door at a time one foot
-I know you’re turning into who they want you to be
Reiteration of feeling overworked and underappreciated in a suppressing system, repeating the idea of the city as an enemy.
Your over tired overworked and under everything
-In a system that’s been keeping you down beneath
-This city four walls yeah that’s the enemy
-I watched you break watched you burn out with insanity
Observing someone's breakdown and burnout due to madness or extreme stress.
Then watched your rise in the face of your own disbelief
Witnessing their recovery despite disbelief.
You know I’m so proud of the person you
Expressing pride in the person's growth and resilience.
Turned out to be
Even in absence, the person will never be seen as an enemy.
Even if I go no you’ll never be the enemy
Affirmation that even if departed, the person will not be considered an enemy.
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