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This was the most difficult song to write on this EP. It was inspired by this interview with Pete Davidson (www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJbqiHbusKY&t=1028s) and turned into the most personal song I've ever written. It's about my own experiences with mental illness and how I feel like I've learned to handle it over the years, while also not knowing how it will develop in the future and being unsure if my current methods of coping will help if it gets worse. I initially described this song as "a personification of depression", but after reflecting on it some more, I think this is just a song about me.

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Cycle 1
Look at me my face turns red
I'm a prisoner in my head

You are trapped inside my heart
You will always be a part

Your soul running through my veins
My heart's the prison skin's the chains

Cut myself and watch it bleed
Drain it all until you're freed

Cycle 2
Never again I say each time
It's like a tally, I'm adding lines

Pain distracting from the pain
Shame adding to the shame

Reminding me that I'm still real
Desperate for the scars to heal

Hurt myself to feel release
It's my decision my disease

Cycle 3
Hello darkness my old friend
I'd hoped that last time was the end

How could I be so naive
The cycle's too clear to believe

The pain distracts but leads to shame
The shame will always lead to pain

Should I give up and let you win?
And fill me with your dark again

Cycle 4
I'm not who I was before
It's a new chapter, I've closed that door

I haven't felt that way in years
There's no use dwelling on these fears

I'm stronger than I used to be
I've got no darkness left in me

And if it ever starts to show
I kill it off before you know

Cycle 4+1
I'm not who I was before
(Look at me my face turns red)
It's a new chapter, I've closed that door
(I'm a prisoner in my head)

I haven't felt that way in years
(And you're trapped inside my heart)
There's no use dwelling on these fears
(You will always be a part)

I'm stronger than I used to be
(Cut myself and watch it bleed)
I've got no darkness left in me
(Drain it all until you're freed)

And if it ever starts to show
(Cut myself and watch it bleed)
I kill it off before you know

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from Songs About People, released February 5, 2021

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Emmett Glancie Burlington, Ontario

Emmett Glancie is a Canadian composer, arranger, producer, and multi-instrumentalist born in Burlington, Ontario in 1997

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