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Unwhole

Metadata

title
Unwhole
meaning
Exist Elsewhere 413: lock you in my room, obsession on the wall: weapon only your hands control; dig deeper, I'm just unwhole.
year
2013
release
413
releaseType
EP
artist
Exist Elsewhere
artistId
#existelsewhere
coWriters
  • Brandon Michael Woodward
credits
Written by Luke Francis Walton and Brandon Michael Woodward (Exist Elsewhere). Mixed and mastered by Frank Rosato.
spotify
https://open.spotify.com/album/47ORPqoD0omGkbQR2koyW8
apple
https://music.apple.com/us/album/413-ep/681835750
themes
  • Exist Elsewhere
  • 413
  • obsession
  • heartbreak
  • 2013
isrc
USHM81320567
isrcSource
spotify
draft
false

Lyrics

I wanna lock you in my room
Cuz you can't hurt me if I do
I can't let you get away
In my arms you've got to stay

You are the air I breathe
What will keep me alive if you leave?

Oh
Don't let me down
I need you now
And you need me

Yeah
I've got to know
If you'll let me go
Cuz I can't see

Ooo
Ooo
Ooo

All night I wonder where you are
If you've been colliding with another heart
I feel it when you're next to me
There's somewhere you'd rather be

Won't you let me drift along
Cuz I can't bear it when you're gone gone gone

Oh
Don't let me down
I need you now
And you need me

Yeah
I've got to know
If you'll let me go
Cuz I can't see

Ooo
Ooo
Ooo

Ooo
Ooo
Ooo

You're my obsession
The only showpiece on the wall
And I'm a weapon
Only your hands can control
Ooo
Ooo

Oh yeah
For you I would die
I'll sell myself up
And give you my life
Oh yeah
Yeah oh

Oh no
Don't hear me cry
Just dig a little deeper
And you'll see that I'm just unwhole
You'll see that I'm just unwhole

See that I'm just unwhole

Content

Track three on 413 (August 2, 2013), between Can't Fall and Genesis. If Can't Fall refuses love from a place of damage, Unwhole clings to it from the same wound. The opening is unsettling on purpose: I wanna lock you in my room / cuz you can't hurt me if I do: love as captivity, dependency stated as biology (you are the air I breathe).

The bridge names what the verses circle: you're my obsession, the only showpiece on the wall / and I'm a weapon only your hands can control. Then the title lands, not as a plea to be fixed but as a confession: dig a little deeper and you'll see that I'm just unwhole. Asking to be seen as incomplete is a stranger, more honest move than asking to be made whole.

On 413 the two heartbreak songs are mirror images: Can't Fall won't show up, Unwhole won't let go. Opposite postures, same Thornton-era wound, years before FEiN sharpened need-as-weapon into satire.

See: 413 EP · Exist Elsewhere on /music/ · Catalog