Description
Sitting inside your own head for too long turns into a vicious circle - it seems like the world outside is alive, but inside there is only the echo of the same thoughts. A repetitive melody of anxiety that no longer heals, but rather adds heat to an already overheated heart.
Here, the rhythm resembles a fever: it freezes in pauses, then throws you back into a pulsating ‘heat,’ as if someone turned on a red light and forgot to turn it off. Attempts to break free sound like whispers through the noise - late, but still desperately alive.
And in this repetitive mantra, there is a strange consolation: even if it is too late to be saved, there is always the possibility of at least speaking the silence.
Lyrics and translation
Original
I've been so locked up in my head, but I ain't talkin'.
St-st-stallin'. My life been on repeat, look what I'm causin'.
Funny how I'm paintin' a picture.
K-keepin' up the peace like I've been holdin' the trigger. Holdin' onto words, but they keep makin' me sicker.
Instead of fixin' problems, only makin' 'em bigger.
So what's it gonna take if the dam breaks?
You can't keep it in place with the floodgates. Try to keep it inside just to save face, but it's a bit too late.
If I could break the silence and throw it away, I'd cut you down to pieces with all I could say and leave you lost with nothing.
Whatever it takes just to end this. If I could break the silence.
Why are we cycling everything?
A part of me already knows it's the end.
Hard to see anything and pretend.
Who I am and where we stand. So what's it gonna take if the dam breaks?
You can't keep it in place with the floodgates.
Try to keep it inside just to save face, but it's a -bit too late.
-If I could break the silence and throw it away, I'd cut you down to pieces with all I could say and leave you lost with nothing. Whatever it takes just to end this.
If I could break the silence.
I'm done keepin' it in, I won't do it again.
I'm never gonna let it shut me out -this time. It's time to let this out.
-If I could break the silence and throw it away, I'd cut you down to pieces with all I could say and leave you lost with nothing. Whatever it takes just to end this.
If I could break the silence. If I could break the silence.
So locked up in my head, but I ain't talkin'.
-I'd cut you down to pieces.
-My life been on repeat, look what I'm -causin'. -And leave you lost with nothing.
Whatever it takes just to end this. If I could break the silence.
If I could break the silence.
English translation
I've been so locked up in my head, but I ain't talkin'.
St-st-stallin'. My life been on repeat, look what I'm causin'.
Funny how I'm paintin' a picture.
K-keepin' up the peace like I've been holdin' the trigger. Holdin' onto words, but they keep makin' me sicker.
Instead of fixin' problems, only makin' 'em bigger.
So what's it gonna take if the dam breaks?
You can't keep it in place with the floodgates. Try to keep it inside just to save face, but it's a bit too late.
If I could break the silence and throw it away, I'd cut you down to pieces with all I could say and leave you lost with nothing.
Whatever it takes just to end this. If I could break the silence.
Why are we cycling everything?
A part of me already knows it's the end.
Hard to see anything and pretend.
Who I am and where we stand. So what's it gonna take if the dam breaks?
You can't keep it in place with the floodgates.
Try to keep it inside just to save face, but it's a -bit too late.
-If I could break the silence and throw it away, I'd cut you down to pieces with all I could say and leave you lost with nothing. Whatever it takes just to end this.
If I could break the silence.
I'm done keepin' it in, I won't do it again.
I'm never gonna let it shut me out -this time. It's time to let this out.
-If I could break the silence and throw it away, I'd cut you down to pieces with all I could say and leave you lost with nothing. Whatever it takes just to end this.
If I could break the silence. If I could break the silence.
So locked up in my head, but I ain't talkin'.
-I'd cut you down to pieces.
-My life been on repeat, look what I'm -causin'. -And leave you lost with nothing.
Whatever it takes just to end this. If I could break the silence.
If I could break the silence.