When I started writing “Real Pain,” I was writing about the way you have to fully engage with pain in order to move through it. That was something I had fully learned around the time I was writing it. It had fully clicked in my mind after going through a very hard breakup, and realizing I couldn’t r...
[Part 1]
[Verse 1]
When pain is real
You cannot run
You can cover
But come undone
And love might go
But it's not gone
I still know you
I still know you
[Verse 2]
When love is real
You cannot take
You can hover
But never quit
And carry on
As you were
I still feel you
I still feel you
[Bridge]
I don't believe the things I've done
I don't believe the way I've been
Going, going, going, going, going, going, going, going, going
[Screams]
[Part 2]
[Chorus]
I wanna kick, wanna scream
I wanna know it's not my fault
I wanna know it's not my fault
I didn't mean it
I wanna kick, wanna scream
I wanna know it's not my fault
I wanna know it's not my fault
I didn't mean it
[Outro]
Oh yeah, oh yeah
Oh yeah, oh yeah
Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah
Oh yeah, oh yeah
Pain is Real was written by Owen Stone & Indigo De Souza.
Pain is Real was produced by Brad Cook & Adam McDaniel & Indigo De Souza & Alex Farrar.
Indigo De Souza released Pain is Real on Wed Aug 11 2021.
Real pain is about facing grief and loss and having compassion for yourself in that space. It’s about learning to be unafraid of experiencing a full spectrum of emotion, and welcoming the way it teaches you and changes you.
For one of the sections in the song, I put out an invitation for people to a...