PAINSTAKING

The 2nd track off the new album, "Break Hold & Elevate" is "Painstaking" and this was also the 1st single released from that album. The definition of 'Painstaking' is: showing or done with great care and effort. The song is about abandonment but we'll tie all that together soon enough, let's get to the lyrics shall we!?

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PAINSTAKING

 

Verse 1:

 

The last that I'm remembering was laying in this place

To find myself in daylight with morning at my face

You must have walked away and I'm a loss for losing

 

Chorus:

Painstaking, ending, thinking but nothing

Conquering, closing in, distancing from knowing

 

Verse 2:

Sat up without memory and passers by they gave

To settle in and make this home, but all I want is to live

And you must have walked away, I'm a loss still losing

 

(Chorus)

 

Bridge:

I recognize my part in this, I may have fought you with my fists

Regardless what the answer is, how could you, how could you?

 

(Chorus).

Feelings of abandonment occur in the heart and mind of everyone in varying degrees regardless of social or economic status, gender, religion or race. It is inescapable. We have all felt alone, forgotten, discarded in some way or another and this song touches on one's experience of being left behind by those who were most dear. The kicker is that the main character has no recollection of the previous nights events, only that he was with his best friends for night out, had a bit too much to drink and wakes up the next morning on a foreign street corner, alone! He is left to sit there and 'painstakingly' attempt to put the events together that would have left him in this situation!

Please use the link above to listen to the song with headphones and few times while you read through the lyrics using the brief description of the songs meaning and soak in it. My next blog will break these lyrics down line by line to dig into the meat of it all!