Breakdown
Navigating Despair: Unveiling the Depths in Oakwood Grove's 'Breakdown'
Lyrics
Find the bottom, don't look up
Emphasizes the importance of facing challenges and not avoiding difficult situations.
It's hard to love yourself these days
Expresses difficulty in self-acceptance in the current times.
Letting down the ones you love
Acknowledges the impact of disappointing those who are cared about.
An untrained stomach might just break
Suggests vulnerability to external pressures, especially when unprepared.
Pouring from an empty cup
Describes giving or expressing oneself despite feeling empty or drained.
If you're okay, then I'm okay
Conditional affirmation based on the well-being of the other person.
Eating less and can't shut up
Highlights a struggle with reduced appetite and inability to be silent.
So clean me out, put me away
Suggests a desire to be cleansed or cleared from something.
Put me away
Reiterates the need to be put away or dealt with in some manner.
I'm finding the importance of a breakdown
Recognizing the significance of facing and dealing with a breakdown.
Don't tell me that I'm fine
Rejects the idea of being fine and challenges the perception of well-being.
I might just trust you more than my own intuition
Distrust in one's own instincts and potential reliance on others.
So what's the purpose of this freak out?
Questions the purpose or reason behind a state of panic or extreme anxiety.
I'm not just losing time
Denies simply wasting time, indicating a deeper struggle.
Lost faith in my own sympathetic nervous system
Losing faith in one's ability to empathize or connect emotionally.
Find some ground to push off from
Searching for a stable foundation to rebound from.
What did we learn from our swim?
Ponders the lessons learned from previous experiences or challenges.
While I'm drying myself off
Reflecting on past actions while in the process of recovery.
I see you jump back in
Observes someone else willingly diving back into difficulties.
Pouring from an empty cup
Repeats the theme of expressing oneself despite feeling empty or drained.
If you're okay, then I'm okay
Conditional affirmation based on the other person's well-being.
Eating less and can't shut up
Describes a struggle with reduced appetite and inability to be silent, repeated from line 7.
So clean me out, put me away
Reiterates the desire to be cleansed or cleared from something, repeated from line 8.
Numb
Expresses a state of emotional numbness or detachment.
As if I could give a fuck about anything
Conveys a lack of concern or indifference toward everything.
Done
Acknowledges completion or finality in a situation or relationship.
Keep pushing me away and save yourself
Encourages distance to protect oneself from further harm.
Fucked
Reiterates indifference towards everything, repeated from line 25.
I just couldn't give a fuck about anything
Expresses a lack of concern or indifference, repeated from line 25.
Done
Emphasizes completion or finality, repeated from line 26.
Numb, numb
Repeats the state of emotional numbness or detachment, emphasizing it.
I'm finding the importance of a breakdown
Reiterating the recognition of the importance of facing a breakdown.
Don't tell me that I'm fine
Challenges the notion of being fine, repeated from line 11.
I might just trust you more than my own intuition
Reiterates the distrust in one's instincts and potential reliance on others, repeated from line 12.
Glazed over eyes
Describes a state of detached or unfocused vision.
Can hardly see
Expresses difficulty in perceiving what is directly in front.
What's right in front of me
Points out the challenge of recognizing what is right in front due to a glazed-over state.
You'll have to save yourself
Advocates for self-preservation, urging someone to save themselves.
And let me go
Encourages letting go for the well-being of both parties.
I'll only let you down
Acknowledges a pattern of disappointing others and expressing a fear of doing so again.
Until you do
Emphasizes the potential of continual letdown until the other person takes action.
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