“Posing in Bondage” sees Michelle Zauner asking for connection, or “bondage.” The title is purposefully misleading, leading the listener to assume she will discuss sexual bondage.
Zauner said of the song:
This song is about the bondage of controlled desire, and the bondage of monogamy—but in a goo...
[Verse 1]
Can you tell I've been posing
This way alone for hours?
Waiting for your affection
Waiting for you
Done up and drunk
Done up and fixed on
All of the nights you turned away my touch
[Chorus]
Closeness
Proximity
I needed
Bondage
Closeness
Proximity
I needed
Bondage
[Verse 2]
When the world divides into two people
Those who have felt pain
And those who have yet to
And I can't unsee it
Although I would like to
Posing in bondage
I hope you come home soon
[Chorus]
Closeness
Proximity
I needed
Bondage
Closeness
Proximity
I need it
Bondage
Posing in Bondage was written by Michelle Zauner.
Posing in Bondage was produced by Michelle Zauner & Jack Tatum.
Japanese Breakfast released Posing in Bondage on Fri Sep 28 2018.
‘Posing In Bondage’ is a ballad about loneliness and longing, a song about two people who want so badly to connect but are never quite able to do so. No place felt lonelier than an empty grocery store at 1AM. The video is actually an epilogue to the one that will accompany our next single, here pres...
Jack Tatum helped me turn this song into this fraught, delicate ballad. The end of it reminds me of Drake’s ‘Hold On, We’re Going Home’; it has this drive-y, chill feeling. This song is about the bondage of controlled desire, and the bondage of monogamy—but in a good way.