Barton said in an Instagram post, referring to the repeated stanza that closes out the album: “I wrote this little mantra from me to me, not because I actually experience this kind of clarity regularly, but because I want to, and so I wrote myself an instruction manual for how to sit down and shut u...
[Verse 1]
I'm living with the love of my life
So I’m living with the best distraction
I do my best to a sickening extent
But with every romance, I'm still the same person
[Pre-Chorus]
No one ever really hears me
I love to tell myself these things
No one ever understands me
I love to tell myself these things
[Chorus]
But what if all this
Is a good sign?
And when I let go
It makes space to try?
[Verse 2]
I've been sifting through my memories
I don’t advise it if you wanna look pretty
I've been studying a picture of me at five
Spending thousands of dollars just to get back that light
[Pre-Chorus]
It'd be easier to blame you
I love to tell myself these things
I'd be easier to love too
I love to tell myself these things
[Chorus]
But what if all this
Is a good sign?
And when I let go
It makes space to try?
[Bridge]
When everything falls apart, I will trust it
Kicking and screaming ends up in a silence
Here in the quiet, I wake up to more
Looking up at the ceiling and down at the floor
When everything falls apart, I will trust it
Watch as the light shines on all my illusions
Here at the bottom, I cannot play god
I am the thing I've been choking on
When everything falls apart, I will trust it
Kicking and screaming ends up in a silence
Here in the quiet, I wake up to more
Looking up at the ceiling and down at the floor
When everything falls apart, I will trust it (What if all this)
Watch as the light shines on all my illusions (Is a good sign?)
Here at the bottom, I cannot play god (And when I let go)
I am the thing I've been choking on (It makes space to try?)
[Outro]
What if all this
Is a good sign?
And when I let go
It makes space to try?