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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