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In “Effortlessly,” Madison addresses the pharmaceutical industry after being diagnosed with BPD (borderline personality disorder) and prescribed antidepressants. She sings about how mental illness can affect your daily life and how she used to do every basic task so effortlessly. “I took smiling and...
[Verse 1]
Told you not to feel
Told you not to hurt at all
That just isn't real
That's a little cynical
Here's a little pill
There's a little fix-it-all
Okay, it's all okay
[Chorus]
But I'm still fading, I can't save me
Am I just gonna drown?
So I hold my breath to breathe
Hurt me so I feel
Used to do these things so effortlessly, somehow
[Verse 2]
Told you how to heal
Filled you up with chemicals
Sadness isn't real
Then why's it feel so physical?
Runnin' through your veins
Cutting right into the bone
Okay, it's all okay
[Chorus]
But I'm still fading, I can't save me
Am I just gonna drown?
So I hold my breath to breathe
Hurt me so I feel
Used to do these things so effortlessly, somehow
[Bridge]
Hold my breath to breathe
(I'm still fading)
(I'm still fading)
(I'm still fading)
[Chorus]
But I'm still fading, I can't save me
Am I just gonna drown?
So I hold my breath to breathe
Hurt me so I feel
Used to do these things so effortlessly, somehow
Effortlessly was written by Madison Beer & Lowell & Leroy Clampitt & Paul Shelton.
Effortlessly was produced by Madison Beer & Leroy Clampitt.
Madison Beer released Effortlessly on Fri Feb 26 2021.
In a February 25, 2021 published article by BuzzFeed, Beer talked about the song:
I wrote “Effortlessly” before I had ever come out about the fact that I had self-harmed. I was really nervous when I was writing the song, because I wasn’t sure, when it was released, if I was going to have had talked...