“Depression” is about Orella’s resistance to her mother’s death. The track is named after the fourth stage of grief, part of Elisabeth Kübler-Ross' Five Stages of Grief model.
In her blog post from April 2020, she said that this song was the first from the EP to be written:
“Depression” was also t...
[Verse 1]
It's hollow in my chest
Weighing since you left
Images that taunt me
The ghost of you still haunts me
Is there any way I can make this pain go away?
[Chorus]
This could end me, this could end me
This could end me, but I'm still standing
This could end me, this could end me
This could end me, but I'm still standing
[Verse 2]
It's hollow in my bones
Nowhere is my home
Nothing satisfies me
I'm tired of just surviving
What if I've gone mad and I can't find my way back?
[Chorus]
This could end me, this could end me
This could end me, but I'm still standing
This could end me, this could end me
This could end me, but I'm still standing
[Outro]
This could end me, this could end me
This could end me, but I'm still standing
Depression was written by Steven Patrick Wilson & Francesca Barranco Holleman.
Frankie Orella released Depression on Fri Apr 03 2020.
For the first couple of months after my mom died all I did was sit in my room and write melodies with my guitar […]. The melody you hear in the verses of “Depression” is something I wrote during that time. It felt like such a special melody that I carried it around for 10 years before feeling like t...