Better Off Without You
Breaking Free from Silent Pain
Lyrics
There's nothing left to run away from
Expressing a sense of facing and confronting everything, leaving no escape.
But if there was my empty words could pave the way
Suggesting that the speaker's words, though seemingly empty, could still lead a path if there was something to escape.
Your sweaty fingers try to hold my mental state
Describing the tactile experience of someone trying to grasp the speaker's emotional state.
Look away
Directing someone to avert their gaze.
Would you please look away
Reiterating the plea for someone to look away.
Look away
-Would you please look away
-Your eyes are melting on my face
Describing the intensity of someone's gaze affecting the speaker.
Because my mind heats up
Connecting the heat in the speaker's mind to staying awake late.
When I stay awake too late
-I feel ashamed because I broke a smile today
Expressing a feeling of embarrassment for breaking into a smile.
Look away
Repeating the request for the person to look away.
Would you please look away
-Look away
-Would you please look away
-I'm keeping my tongue tied up
Emphasizing the speaker's effort to restrain from speaking due to the consequences of revealing dangerous thoughts.
Cause these dangerous words betray me
-My mind changes
-And nothin I say keeps you away
-I'm keeping m-my tongue tied down
Continuing the theme of keeping words restrained and unspoken.
As every little word fills my mouth
-Hey I feel like I'm drowning
Describing a shared feeling of drowning, possibly in emotional turmoil.
Do you feel like you're drowning
-Cause I feel like we're drowning
-Drowning… yeah
-I need more than a
Expressing the importance of the relationship, surpassing even music and faith.
Hundred days
-You meant more to me than music
-More to me than faith
-And I'm still fighting to escape the truth
Conveying the internal struggle of accepting the truth and not wanting to be better off without the person.
But no
-I don't wanna be
-I don't wanna be
-Better off without you
Repeating the refusal to be better off without the person.
I don't wanna be
-I don't wanna be
-Better off without you
-(look away)
Reiterating the plea for the person to look away during moments of vulnerability.
And In the moments I relapse
-The ecosystem in my mind starts to collapse
-And I get Smokey eyes when I set fire to your face
-Look away
-Would you please look away
-Look away
-Would you please look away? (oh)
-And I may have chosen this pain
Acknowledging the choice of pain but highlighting the unexpected difficulty of boredom.
But nobody told me that
-Boring was easier
-I don't wanna talk
Refusing to communicate verbally as thoughts threaten to lose their meaning.
Cause the thoughts are taking the meaning away
-Don't take it away from me
-I'm keeping my tongue tied up
Repeating the struggle with dangerous words and their potential to distance the person.
Cause these dangerous words betray me
-My mind changes
-And nothin I say keeps you away
-I'm keeping m-my tongue tied down
Continuing the feeling of drowning and questioning if the person feels the same.
As every little word fills my mouth
-Hey I feel like I'm drowning
-Do you feel like you're drowning
-Cause I feel like we're drowning
Reiterating the sense of drowning in emotions.
Drowning… yeah
-I need more than a hundred days
Emphasizing the significance of the person and the ongoing fight to escape an uncomfortable truth.
You meant more to me than music
-More to me than faith
-And I'm still fighting to escape the truth
-But no
Repeating the refusal to be better off without the person.
I don't wanna be
-I don't wanna be
-Better off without you
-I don't wanna be
Continuing the strong desire to not be better off without the person.
I don't wanna be
-Better off without you
-I don't wanna be
Expressing a reluctance to be without the person, emphasizing the importance of their presence.
I don't wanna be
-Oh You, without you
-Without you
-I don't wanna be
-I don't wanna be
-Oh You, without you
-Without you
Repeating the sentiment of not wanting to be without the person.
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