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REDROOMS
- [Intro]
- This one man, it's different
- When those little things build up
- And you let them go
- But the tiniest thing just make you blow up
- Can you relate?
- [Verse One]
- The hallway light was buzzin' like it knew I wasn't sleeping
- Three in the morning hear the neighbours bed creaking
- Dust on the windowsill and the kettle still screechin'
- And every little thing feels loud when your head weakens
- I've been countin' all the cracks in the paint above the bedframe
- Bills folded underneath the keyboard with the dead names
- Unread texts from my mother sayin' "call me when your head straight"
- How am I supposed to answer when I don't recognize my own face?
- Walked to the store just to stand inside the freezer aisle
- Cold air hit my skin and made me stay a while
- Cashier asked how I'm doing so I forced another smile
- Funny how a stranger notice pain before your people dial
- Cos' lately every room get darker when i step in it
- Friends consoling but their words sound like an estimate
- Sink full of dishes and I swear they look sediment
- These small failures turn to mountains when you measure it
- And I don't yell much, I absorb it
- Bottle every broken conversation in my organs
- Every fake "I'm good" every night I couldn't afford rent
- Every dream I watched die slow while everybody gone spent
- The one day it happen subtle as a nosebleed
- Missed call from my favourite ex while the TV playin' old scenes
- Somebody upstairs stomping you better call the police
- And something in my chest finally broke without a warning
- Now the walls are looking red and every sound got sharp edges
- Hands shakin' in the bathroom light fighting dark seconds
- Mirror saying "you became the thing you kept repressing"
- I couldn't even tell if I was crying or just breathless
- Yeah, the blinds force daylight, I just woke up in the afternoon
- And my mind turning against me as I beat up the room
- Like depression ain't a slow leak hiding in the tissues
- 'Til you wake up one day and every thought become an issue
- And yeah, I know tomorrow I'm gonna prolly act normal again
- Crack jokes
- Help somebody else ignore all their sins like a tough bloke
- But every time I try to help I just fail fucking miserably
- So I dial my mama and she claims I'm doing perfectly
- Fuck
- [Pre Chorus]
- And if I fade again
- Don't wait again
- The lights all turn red in my head again
- I tried my best
- Still broke my chest
- Now every little thing feel like the end
- So raise your glass
- To the nights I couldn't hold it in
- Smile so people never notice it
- Everybody got a version of a broken kid
- Mine just learned to live inside the red rooms
- [Chorus]
- Red rooms
- Red rooms
- Every road lead back to red rooms
- Head down
- Can't move
- Tryna outrun what I been through
- [Verse Two]
- The TV still glowing from the night before
- Same clothes in the basket and my blood on the kitchen floor
- Cupboards slam harder when your mind at war
- Funny how the quiet makes a person hear their damage more
- Phone ringing
- I ignore it
- Another "you been distant lately" conversation
- Fuck it
- Another person tryna fix me with their motivation
- Like I ain't spent years fighting thoughts in the basement
- And I was holdin' it together by a thread line
- Fake laughs at work while my hands shook at the red lights
- People talkin' to me, swear to God it sounded dead like
- Like everybody livin normal while I'm barely getting by
- Then it happened
- Not daramatic like the movies are
- No big crash
- No sirens cutting through the room
- Just one more bad day added to a hundred wounds
- And something in me said "Fuck it, I got nothing left to lose"
- I punched a hole straight through the bedroom wall
- Stood there bleedin' watchin' pictures and the plaster fall
- Breath gettin' shorter while the shadows stretch across the hall
- I needa friend or a saviour for me to call
- Now the sink runnin over and neighbours banging on the cieling
- Voices in my head are louder than the television
- Tryna calm down but my body never really listen
- That's the scary part, you know it's wrong and still keep spiralling
- Cos' once you hit that point, it ain't anger, it's exhaustion
- Every little hurt you buried start distortin
- All them nights you stayed silent feel important
- Till the red rooms open up and you just walk in
- [Bridge]
- I looked into the mirror barely recognised the face
- Eyes bloodshot, jaw locked, tears mixin' with the rage
- And for a second I got terrified of what I'd became
- Not because I snapped, because it felt normal for a day
- [Pre Chorus]
- And when I break again
- Don't call my name
- The ceiling turns red when the pressure change
- I held it down
- Till I nearly drowned
- Now every quiet night don't feel the same
- So here's a toast
- To the lies I kept behind my teeth
- Eyes low so nobody worry 'bout me
- Everybody got a side they never let you see
- Mine just learned to hide inside the red rooms
- [Chorus]
- Red rooms
- Red rooms
- Every road lead back to red rooms
- Head down
- Can't move
- Tryna outrun what I been through
- [Bridge]
- Now the house don't feel like home no more
- Every mirror got a face I can't ignore
- I hear my heartbeat through the bedroom floor
- Like it's tryna warn me what I'm turnin' toward
- And I tried
- God knows I tried
- To keep the light alive behind my eyes
- But every small cut multiplied with time
- Till there was nothin left of me inside
- So if you see me driftin' through the dark
- Don't follow me
- Don't follow me
- Cause once them red walls start closin' in
- They never leave
- They never leave
- [Chorus]
- Red rooms
- Red rooms
- Every road leads back to red rooms
- Head down
- Can't move
- Tryna outrun what I been through
- [Outro]
- The red rooms hurt
- They hurt so bad
- After you let the rage out
- It feels so normal
- Hurts so bad
- Hurts so bad
- It feels so normal
- But hurts so bad
- Hurts so bad
- Hurts so bad
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