I’d love to know what really inspired this one because it starts out so vague but perfectly encapsulates the frustration with dealing with someone who just won’t be straight up about what they want or what they’re doing, and then it gets oddly specific without ever really explaining what’s really happening.

I’ve said it before but Static Prevails is a great record for capturing that period of adolescence where you just sort of hate everything all at once, everyone is annoying and everything kind of sucks.

It’s a bit weird how back and fourth this one goes. If you thought that by the first verse they were speaking directly to someone, by the end of this verse it’s almost like they’re talking to themselves, or, that the other person is now responding with “stop dragging feet”. In either case I am here for the heat and I wanna know what the orchestra is playing.

Often times my favourite lyrics are just simple phrases on repeat and this is a great example of that. Again, we still don’t really know what has fuelled so much anger but I can’t say I’ve never been in that place before. The original recording is so raw that the feelings really jump right out of the track and into yourself.

So it looks like we’ve both decided (I’m now both the observer and the subject) to keep playing these silly games where we pretend nothing is wrong and carry about our day as though nothing has happened. And what an absolute waste all of this has been.

Now, I ramped up the intensity for my outro chorus (I think) but it couldn’t have been done without bringing this backing vocal line to the foreground.

This line to me is the most important lyric in the batch.

Because despite all that’s been said and done or not said and not done, you won’t forget this and you won’t ever be able to fully let it go. It happened, it’s there, and it’ll sit like a permanent stain.