get out of my head

I started the project file for ‘get out of my head’ in early 2018 as a way to mimic Carpenter Brut’s music. I started making it out of anger for the situation I was in but felt it sounded too cheesy and poorly mixed.

I revisited it in 2020 and revamped it, giving rise to ‘get out of my head’. Similar to a lot of my other songs, this song is about the feeling of being manipulated and spiralling non-stop without a way out and their long-term lasting effects. It’s about my frustration that negative coping mechanisms and trauma from previous events affect future things in the absence of the offender.

lyrics

[Verse 1]
Wherever I go, you’re always there watching
Never saying goodbye
Always on my mind, ripping into my soul
Creating storms from life’s tides

What do you gain from playing all these mind games?
And tearing me apart
What do you gain from tormenting me silently
Burning up my heart

[Bridge]
You lead me on a path to nowhere
We both know that you never cared

[Pre-chorus]
You lead me on a path to nowhere
All I ask is for you to get out of my head

[Chorus]
Get out of my head
You never cared

[Verse 3]
Anxiety swirls and makes me drown
Misery drags me to the ground
How we used to be, you broke what we had vowed
Can’t you see? your lies have all unwound
I’m on my knees, I beg for a way out
At your mercy, sinking in self-doubt

[Verse 4]
Wherever I go, you’re always there watching
Never saying goodbye
Always on my mind, ripping into my soul
Creating storms from life’s tides

What do you gain from playing all these mind games?
And tearing me apart
What do you gain from tormenting me silently
Burning up my heart