Drowning Commentary Lyrics

So, Drowning

This song is a lot along the same lines as Water Drops was

Since I began singing here, it's been a wonderful outlet for my emotions

Instead of bottling them up, I'm able to vocalize them now

And I did a lot of that in Water Drops, but Water Drops more spoke to the thoughts and

The voice inside my head

And Water Drops addressed it in a different way

I used a very low tone with that song

Drowning, I wanted to go to the opposite end of the spectrum

And take a whack at singing

In a higher pitch, kind of my higher tone that I could reach

And I remember the idea first struck me for Drowning here

When I was up in my kitchen, I was making some food and it was a really stressful day

And I go through these cycles of, I don't know if you'd even call it depression, but

Sadness, I guess, and overwhelmed feelings, overwhelming feelings that I get

And while I was up in my kitchen, it was, like I say, a stressful day, and I was just

Feeling super overwhelmed

I felt like I was just drowning in tasks to be done and all sorts of things

And while I was up there, the thought just struck me that I just felt like I couldn't

Do this that day

It seems to be a seasonal thing, and just every once in a while I'll get like this

Where I just feel like a complete failure

And I was feeling like this that day, and so I decided, I pulled out my phone and kind

Of recorded a little melody of the words I was feeling

And the melody just kind of came out of me, and what I wrote up in my kitchen, or what

I kind of sang into my little microphone on my phone here, was the chorus for Drowning

This is the first time I've ever written a song from the chorus out

I typically begin a song at the very beginning

And build the verse into a chorus and so on

But this song, the chorus came to me, and that was when I was up in the kitchen there

It all just kind of came to me

I ran downstairs a couple hours later, and I spent the rest of the night on my computer

Here, writing things down, getting the lyrics down

And establishing a rhythm and a melody for Water Drops

And it just kind of came together

And it's been one of my favorite songs to work on so far

But Water Drops, or not Water Drops, but Drowning here

Iit addresses, like I was saying there

A lot of the emotions that I get from time to time of being overwhelmed and stressed

Out, which, I mean, everybody goes through

But like I say, I never had an outlet before to localize these emotions

I would typically just bury them down, and so it's been really alleviating and calming

To be able to use music as this outlet

And Drowning has probably been one of the most

I don't even know how to say it, I don't

Know how to say it

It's been such a nice way to dump my emotions into something productive

And right at the start of the song there, I really loved, from the chorus line, I just

Kind of used a little faded-away vocal there, but it just says

Lend me your hand, I'm drowning

Drowning talks a lot about that overwhelming feeling that comes from time to time, and

I mention thoughts of failure

I mention the feel of unwelcome thoughts and feelings that I just don't want to have

And the whole song is just basically about that

And Drowning kind of, like I say

Runs along some of the same lines that Water Drops does

Where the first verse, one of my favorite parts, is the lyrics go

Who's in here

No one else that I see

It's just me and my head and this dread that consumes my being

And that was one of the lines that really just kind of came out when I was writing the

verse and just describes so much how I feel

Like I say, I get in my head and these feelings take over and there's no one else there

It's just me and my head

It's me and my dread

It's me stressing myself out

And I'm learning this along my journey of life that I'm the solution to my own problems

And I think that's where having this music has been really a great way for me to kind

Of help take control

I guess, of these emotions and help kind of simmer them down and control

Them so they can't control me

And that's pretty much what drowning is all about