“Using,” the 8th track on Sorority Noise’s album Joy, Departed, is about substance abuse and use and its relation to mental health. It explores feelings of depression, but also of overcoming numbness and feeling better.
[Verse 1]
I started using again
Left my heart in Rocky Hill, hole burning in my head
Needed a distraction from my head
Devil on my shoulder said try this instead
So I started using again
[Verse 2]
I started sleeping again
Traded late nights and sheep for Vicodin
The guilt burning in my chest set in
I started sleeping again
[Chorus]
I stopped wishing I was dead
Learned to love myself before anyone else
Become more than just a burden
I know I'm more than worthy of your time
[Guitar interlude]
[Verse 3]
I started smoking again
Guess I missed coughing my lungs up every morning
Needed anything to keep me breathing
To prevent my blood from bleeding
I started smoking again
[Bridge]
I started loving again
Thought when I lost that will to live I could never feel again
I'll give it one more shot and let someone in
I started loving again
I started loving again
I started loving again
I started loving again
[Outro]
I stopped wishing I was dead
Learned to love myself before anyone else
Become more than just a burden
I know I'm more than worthy of your time
I'm more than worthy of your time
I'm more than worthy of your time
Using was written by Charlie Singer & Ryan McKenna & Adam Ackerman & Cameron Boucher.
Using was produced by Cameron Boucher & Sorority Noise.
Sorority Noise released Using on Tue Jun 16 2015.
At a show once, Boucher introduced “Using” with a monologue about how he used to be suicidal and that he wants everyone to know their life has value.
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