This track talks about living without being afraid of never having someone love you. It promotes self-love, and pushes the idea of not relying on someone else to feel ok with existence.
It came from a someone I was very close to threatening to commit suicide because they didn't want to live without having love. While that situation inspired the song, it also is a message to myself, as I struggle with self-love and the idea of being alright with living without anyone's love.
The rap was written by my brother Matthew Leary
lyrics
Could it be me or a dark and twisted fantasy running free
Giving too much time and patience to this disease
We call love no it's not from above there's no white feathered dove can't you see
There's no love left for you or for me
I'm lost inside my head I feel the sudden dread
Coursing through my blood like the endless flood
Killing off the sense that kept me on the fence
To push me off the edge
And now I run away from my pain
All the fear inside me boiling up to burn my throat and mind
Time after time I can't control the envy keeping my heart locked away
I wish you would stay away from the mess of a life that I call my existence
Looking in the mirror I can't see a thing I'm running off drugs and shattered dreams
Not what I seem everything I know about you begs me to scream
And the way we disconnect is proof we don't need to be here
Making fools of our lives being told by fear what to do how to live
It's not the way I pictured myself learning to give
I'm lost inside my head I feel the sudden dread
Coursing through my blood like the endless flood
Killing off the sense that kept me on the fence
To push me off the edge
And now I fight my way from my shame
Everything inside me conjuring a state of doubt without a way to get out
The prison that I've built myself it keeps my thoughts so safe without the hate
I think that I see in the whole of existence
Looking in the mirror I see my soul scream from my eyes
See the light inside before my darkness breaks your sun
Breathe the clean air today so I can use your lungs
I wanna feel your spirit break out of the chains constructed from
The fear of losing love
The fear of losing
I ripped the wings off of a butterfly by the seams
Or it seems it was a moth covered in dirt
She chewed the threads of my T-shirt
Like there weren't already enough holes in my consciousness
But I'm the kind of guy who can build a bridge
Burn it down laugh manically and walk away with dust on my heels
It was nothing a hot shower couldn't clean off
But you were a gift and I smashed it up
Because I'm a daredevil who can't sit comfortably
(Matthew Leary)
Can't take back all my sins
Don't think I would even if I could
Got off my knee no repent can't rethink my diseases
This a repeat been going crazy, people think I'm lazy but
I don't wanna worry 'bout it she wanna hear a good story
I told her take a knee maybe take two now
Baby stick your tongue out woo
Everybody know we been wild since the 8th grade
Grinding all our lives I'm glad she's gone
I hope she hears me on the Radio
I think I miss the freak more than her love
See the light inside before my darkness breaks your sun
Breathe the clean air today so I can use your lungs
I wanna feel your spirit break out of the chains constructed from
The fear of losing love
The fear of losing
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