“Okay” by As It Is explores mental health and depression, and how that affects being an artist.
The song was released as the lead single and title track off the band’s sophomore effort, okay.
As It Is first teased “Okay” September 9th 2016, when the band’s Instagram page had the words “Please Stan...
[Intro]
I don't know if I've been worse
I don't know if I can change
But right now, I don't think, I don't think that I'm okay
[Verse 1]
I felt a year's worth of hurt and sadness catching up with me
The sky I painted to silence the pain, it is bleeding into grey
[Chorus]
I don't know if I've been worse
I don't know if I can change
But right now, I don't think, I don't think that I'm okay
I don't think that I'm okay. I don't think that I'm okay
[Verse 2]
In unfamiliar, somber surroundings, confessing all of me
A perfect stranger, she puts pen to paper, consoling in her sleep
And how foreign it felt when I opened my mouth and heard the truth come out (I heard the truth come out)
I've been running away, a tired respite from pain
My only novocaine (my only novocaine)
[Chorus]
I don't know if I've been worse
I don't know if I can change
But right now, I don't think, I don't think that I'm okay
I don't think that I'm okay. I don't think that I'm okay
[Bridge]
So keep your "It'll get better's" and I'll keep my "I'll be just fine's"
I'll show you flashes of colors and hide behind bouquets of lies
So keep your "It'll get better's" and I'll keep my "I'll be just fine's" (I'll be just fine)
I'll show you flashes of colors and hide behind bouquets of lies
[Chorus]
I don't know if I've been worse
I don't know if I can change
But right now, I don't think, I don't think that I'm okay
I don't think that I'm okay. I don't think that I'm okay
I don't think that I'm okay
Okay was written by Patrick Foley & Alistair Testo & Ben Biss & Andy Westhead & Patty Walters.
Okay was produced by Mike Green.
As It Is vocalist Patty Walters shared with Rock Sound:
I started writing this song during the worst breakdown I’ve ever experienced. I internalised and ignored my feelings, which ate away at me for months.
Whilst writing this album, I had nowhere left to run, I sobbed, and I finally had no choice...
As It Is - Okay (Acoustic)
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Genius
Intro] / I don't know if I've been worse / I don't know if I can change / But right now, I don't think, I don't think that I'm okay / [Verse 1] / I felt a year's worth of hurt and