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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
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

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Track three on [*413*](/albums/413/) (**August 2, 2013**), between [*Can't Fall*](/songs/cant-fall/) and [*Genesis*](/songs/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*](/songs/cant-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](/albums/413/) · [Exist Elsewhere on /music/](/music/#existelsewhere) · [Catalog](/catalog/)

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