Whatever the interpretation, it's still a great song and that's the beauty of it. If you read it as a straight love song it works. If you read between the lines and see the sadness, it still works. That's what's so clever about it. It's a song that works both for the lovestruck optimists and the cynical pessimists. You masterfully weaved the sadness both into the lyrics and the music so even if you're not lyrically minded, you can still feel the emotions through the song and vice versa. The "dual meaning" reminded me of When I Grow Up from Matilda. When kids hear it they think "yeahhh! I'm going to climb trees every day when I'm old and I'll be strong enough to climb even taller ones" and adults think "whoaa... where did that childlike attitude go? When did I become so OLD?". To a child the lyrics are hopeful and exciting but to an adult, they're bittersweet and melancholy.

(also, being the flowery actor I am, I think you should write a musical because you manage to imbue such character into your songs.)


I love this video, the music video confused me so much because I didn't think it matched up with the description that you gave at the beginning of intertwined but I think it was just because of how extreme the video was. I always saw it as a little of a twisted love song and depending on someone else for happiness but nowhere near to the extremes that the video took. I appreciate it much more now although I still find it a bit strange but each to their own, i'm not always going to love everything someone makes.


i've always really loved the song intertwined (although i think sick of losing soulmate is my fav on the ep oops don't kill me please) and i never really knew how to interpret it. sometimes i'd listen to it and think "hmm nice song about a lovely couple la dee da dee da" and other times i'd be like "THE WORLD IS ENDING AHHHH". i ALWAYS try to analyse the lyrics in a song whether it be katy perry or bmth. as a song writer myself (a really bad one, might i add), i LOVED this. i think you are truly a genius when it comes to lyrics.


I really enjoy this style of video, it's nice.


I feel like I'm in a class that I actually enjoy 😂


I always thought that intertwined was about a couple who had fallen out of love with each other and everything went a bit violent and they were like trapped in the relationship but saying that things were all ok etc. I think the music video for the song is incredible, when I first saw it I was unsure about it all, but then I watched it again and fell in love! Well done dodie for creating such an incredible peace of art work x


I had always interpreted the song in a sweeter, less dark way with the theme of mental health as sort of an underlying issue, as if the "I"/the writer of the song was trying to say: 'Yeah, I have mental health issues, but I can still be in love and enjoy the moment, let the "fear of the things in my brain" fade away every once in a while, because of "you".' Which is why I was surprised with how "disturbing" the music video was.
I think I understand the music video much better after this explanation and it makes me like it more. The way I interpreted it at first can be sort of a 'surface interpretation/image', while the things you explained can be a deeper, darker, underlying meaning. It seems as if, or the couple in the song tries to pretend that, the problems can be taken away (even if only for a while) with laughs and sweet moments, but in reality they are just ignoring the real problems and the relationship is unhealthy because of the dependency.
Thanks for explaining your interpretation, it's very interesting to know how much thought went into writing this song!


DANG DODIE<br>It's like I endlessly doubt how much art will mean to the artist and how much thought and time they actually put into their art, but if I could just speak to them about it, I would understand. ILOVEUNDERSTANDINGARTYOUDONTEVENKNOW

DANG DODIE
It's like I endlessly doubt how much art will mean to the artist and how much thought and time they actually put into their art, but if I could just speak to them about it, I would understand. ILOVEUNDERSTANDINGARTYOUDONTEVENKNOW


This song screams Evak to me. Both the dark and the romantic themes fit so well for their relationship and I'm just cryin about it all the time


The lyrics "Numb, fine" in the song kinds sound like "I'm, fine" and idk why but I love that so muchas 💛


i had always interpreted the song in this exact way, but people would always talk about it as a cutesy love song so i thought i was wrong and tried to change my interpretation. now that i know this is the initial meaning of the song it makes it hit a little harder i guess because its exactly how i am when im in love, i guess we're the same there dodie


I thought the music video was perfect! The only thing I would change would be slight flickers to black and white during the darker words in the song . This would help create emphasis on the instability of the relationship the song portrays.


Holy crap i didn't realize my interpretation was so similar. Like i got the parts where the one singing the song was struggling with mental health but i didn't think it was too severe and that the relationship was kinda keeping the singer afloat but the other one in the relationship wasn't doing too hot. I think the video was a tad more extreme than what went with my interpretation but it fit for sure. I would've had a video with two actual people showing them being happy together one possibly having a breakdown and then the other trying to help but ultimately getting frustrated. But like the song, flash back and forth between the highs and lows of the relationship. I like seeing facial expressions to help convey feeling but the use of the dolls were fantastic.


This is so interesting! I got this theme from the song, but not in as much depth as you described it/wrote it. Mostly I thought it was a love song about somebody making your troubles lighter and "laughing away the fear" in the first way you described it, as being happy together so it takes the fear away. But I still got the hint of maybe-this-isn't-so-good. The lyric that was the most jarring for me was "you create a rarity of my genuine smile" because that contrasts so much against my interpretation of "laugh away the fear." My favorite line is "I pinned each and every hope on you, I hope that you don't bleed with me". I like the connection between pins and bleeding. So basically my interpretation is the same as how you wrote it, except I hadn't realized how much thought you really put into it! You're amazing.


Before watching the video, I thought it represented a relationship, that the world didn't approve of.  These thoughts then took over your brain making you think that the relationship isn't right, but in denial you continue in your relationship.  You then begin being abused but feel as if it is all in your head, because of what other people say. You feel that you can't reach out to anyone because it is all in your  head, and you defended this Person and you have nobody to trust enough to pout out your thoughts to. This should be someone you should trust, the person you are in a relationship with but you believe that you have trust issues and you are stuck in a three way relationship with you, your partner and your <br>mental health.

Before watching the video, I thought it represented a relationship, that the world didn't approve of.  These thoughts then took over your brain making you think that the relationship isn't right, but in denial you continue in your relationship.  You then begin being abused but feel as if it is all in your head, because of what other people say. You feel that you can't reach out to anyone because it is all in your  head, and you defended this Person and you have nobody to trust enough to pout out your thoughts to. This should be someone you should trust, the person you are in a relationship with but you believe that you have trust issues and you are stuck in a three way relationship with you, your partner and your
mental health.


this is one of the first times my interpretation of a song has been nearly correct whoot!! when i first heard the song, i thought of it as a person looking back on times they had with the one they loved. the thoughts are sweet, depicting a couple in love and safely keeping each other warm and safe. as the song continues, the thoughts become sour, as though their love interest didn't try hard enough and let the person down, maybe alluding to the reasons the person and their love interest are no longer together. then, when i saw the video, it became clearer to me that mental illness came into play with the message of the song. (the following explanation is one that i sent to my friend who was asking about my interpretation of the meaning of the video) two people fall in love, and everything is nice. they provide a home within each other, a safe haven. however, especially for those with mental illnesses, a safe place away from the world will not suffice, because it is their mind that is actually out to get them. at the most unexpected times chaos will erupt within one's head, creating a chaos of its own for the people around this person, which could harm/affect not only the person with the disorder, but also those that love said person... of course, i didn't include the unhealthy dependency and toxic relationship, but overall almost the same message. beautifully painful song, by the way. thanks :) - m

i didn't mean to write a whole hecking essay for that, but i forgot to add that my favorite part of the video was when the blood was rushing in, and you were hitting the high note in "'cause i can't stand them." its a very emotional moment, and the nonchalance of the chaos is almost heartbreaking


I had an image of two people in love, but the world slowly poisons their relationship until they're just pretending, but they just "laugh away the fear."


Honestly I got most of this from the song originally except for the whole unhealthy thing. This is one of those songs that is an "our song." It the song chosen to represent one of the relationships in my life at the moment. The more dark elements surrounded by an almost pure light couldn't be more perfect. Both me and the other person in the relationship are pretty mentally unhealthy and aren't very happy people. The way I always saw it was that as we drink away each other's fears they turned into the light. The darkness we hold becomes joy when we're together. We soften each other's ripping and sharp depression and panic. I love this song because you can feel the violence coming from within but also the gentle warmth enveloping the pair, the two. I never saw the relationship as unhealthy, I only ever saw the people that way. The gore becomes light when the two touch


I have listened to this song on repeat since dodie released it online yet never looked deep into the lyrics. based on the sweet and mellower vibe of the melody and harmonies and ukulele, My instant interpretation was a very sweat and calm love song where everything was perfect. Since the video has been released I've been questioning that view of it. at first i was confused cus it didn't fit what i would have viewed it as in any way. Then I fell soooooo in love. It blew my mind how something that seemed so innocent was so twisted and dark and i never thought to look at it that way! I just think the video and song is just such a beautiful piece of artwork


i thought it was about experiences in a same sex relationship in which their relationship is frowned upon by others ('the world will try') but that when they are together, they can shut themselves away and forget about the negativity towards them and 'laugh away the fears' of being judged constantly. this interpretation obviously follows the idea of being 'intertwined' and intimate with someone else and being in love with someone.


lol i feel dumb. When I first watched the Intertwined video I was a bit taken back as it was so different from what I originally felt the vibe of the song was. The Intertwined video also presents some creepy and gory themes that were not used to seeing in association with Dodie. But as I read through comments and thought about it more, I began to understand what meaning the video was trying to portray. Now that I've watched this video, I cant believe how obvious the true meaning of Intertwined is.


My interpretation was isolation. The couple believes that as long as they have each other, they can not be harmed by the outside world, but that thought is proven to be naive when their downfall comes from inside the safety of their home (ie. relationship)


Initially this song wasn't one that stood out to me on the EP- It just wasn't really one that I really listened to because I didn't feel anything for it... That's definitely different now. This song now means so much more to me, and I don't know how to coherently say it- but I relate so much. It's incredible and the lyrics mean so much more to me now and the harmonic analysis is too perfect- I could write an essay on this haha!
I get that art isn't about having it explained to you, it's your initial interpretations, but I thank you so much for explaining this one because I think I really missed out by glossing over the lyrics when I first listened.
PS- The music video fits so much with the chaos in my mind when I'm symptomatic- thank you to Sammy for coming up with this concept <3


I like how the only thing I didn't like about the music video was the fact that they were demolishing barbies, which I consider a very dear part of my childhood, but I LOVE the dark twist!


I heard the song in a more romantic tone, where the writer struggles with mental health (in my mind it's anxiety bc, well, hashtag relatable) but they are content in the moment they share with their lover.

The lyric 'skin, heat, hair in your mouth, feet touching feet. You and I, save from the world, though the world will try' for me it describes an imperfectly lovely situation between two people who are just content to be in each others presence and won't let the world ruin their little moment.

With the lyric 'I've pinned each and every hope on you, I hope that you don't bleed with me' it portrayed to me the vulnerability that comes with love and caring for a person in that way. When a person can make you that happy, there's with the risk of that happiness being taken away again.

The lyric 'I'm afraid of the things in my brain, but we can stay here and laugh away the fear' describes to me that even though the writer had their own mental struggles, their lover makes them feel safe and forget their worries for a while.

'Can you drink all my thoughts? Because I can't stand them' sounds like, even though the lover makes them feel better, they cannot 'fix' the writer's mental problems permanently, though they (arguably selfishly) wish they could.

I know my view isn't the 'correct' one, but I personally prefer the easy breazy, love dovey interpretation. But I love the song either way.


2:45 -- tonally, that's really more of a flat 6 than a sharp 5; it's what you call a chromatic mediant (Google-able).

It's not such an unusual chord (while sharp 5 = wat). You're right that it is technically outside the scale, but it's actually borrowed from the minor version of the same scale - the song's in G, so the 6th is E minor, BUT in G minor, the 6th would be Eb major (which is what you go to there). Spelling it like a D# major chord is a lot more head-scratchy, not least because it functions like a 6 chord rather than like a 5 chord in the progression.

Music theory. It's everywhere. :D

(Love the song btw)


tbh I never thought of the song like this but instead thought of it like a one sided conversation between one person who struggles with mental illness talking to and another who is mentally healthy and loves the person speaking and wants to help them. I think this way about the lyrics but the contrast between the lyrics (which are about a mentally unstable person) and the melody/instrumental is what particularly catch my attention because yes the lyrics talk about mental instability but the way the instruments are played and vocals are used a calming and cozy mood is produced. also, the video fits perfectly for this interpretation but with mine i was expecting more of a short film that takes place in a bed where the relationship between two lovers is shown (it also shows how mentally unstable the lover speaking is and how the mentally stable lover helps but struggles to help the mentally unstable one). ya feel me?


If Dodie was my English lit prof I'd never skip a class


I always thought of it as being about a toxic relationship. But what I took out of it was that it was two people that love each other and really want to be together, but they know that they can't be truly happy like that. So they spend time together, trying to forget the bad things and laughing away the fear of how their relationship will end. Their friends and family are trying to end it for the good of the two lovers (the world will try), but no matter how fucked up it gets, they're in love.

I thought of the whole mental illness thing as a factor, and why it says "can you drink all my thoughts" , but their partner can't handle supporting them like that. The relationship is only hurting them.


I never analysed the song in much depth but after seeing the video and hearing a more in depth explanation of it I definitely agree with you. I never really thought of it as a "love song" a) because of the contrasting lyrics (or all the lyrics) and b) because it was you're song. Dodie writing a totally platonic "love song" with no underlying meaning never even crossed my mind. It is such a beautiful song which is sung equally as beautiful but if you listen to the lyrics it has so much more to say beneath them. Which is why I Dodie is such an amazing person! :))


I think I interpreted the song pretty much the same as you wrote it, but what I took away from it was more the relief a partner or relationship can give someone and how so much of relationships is just the two people caring for and looking after each other. It didn't feel like an unhealthy sort of dependence to me, but probably because I'm thinking from my own experience :)<br>This was the only acoustic guitar song besides Hey There Delilah that I've ever liked because your lyrics are so beautiful and as a literary sort of person I really appreciate that

I think I interpreted the song pretty much the same as you wrote it, but what I took away from it was more the relief a partner or relationship can give someone and how so much of relationships is just the two people caring for and looking after each other. It didn't feel like an unhealthy sort of dependence to me, but probably because I'm thinking from my own experience :)
This was the only acoustic guitar song besides Hey There Delilah that I've ever liked because your lyrics are so beautiful and as a literary sort of person I really appreciate that


(keep in mind that english is my second language, so my vision can be strange)<br>I misunderstood song lyrics when I was listening this song for a first time and i thought that it says "love away the fear". Funny how one word changed the whole point, cause it doesn't sounds like a song about toxic relationship in this case. It sounds more  like a song about two sad people trying to find a way to help each other.

(keep in mind that english is my second language, so my vision can be strange)
I misunderstood song lyrics when I was listening this song for a first time and i thought that it says "love away the fear". Funny how one word changed the whole point, cause it doesn't sounds like a song about toxic relationship in this case. It sounds more  like a song about two sad people trying to find a way to help each other.

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as an a level english lit student I am in love with this video


everything. makes. so. much. sense. to. me. now. omg. and that oohs killed me 💖


Is Sick of Losing Soulmates only about romantic love or you or does it also refer to the way friend groups grow apart and break away from each other as you grow into adulthood? It always really resonated with me and my experiences with my closest friends from when I was younger who now can't even be in the same room as each other because of bad breakups or drama or whatever.


I saw it at first as conversation between two people in a relationship. The writer of the song almost replaying the happy and comforting moments in their relationship as they talk. Then as the conversation moves into an argument about their commitment. They realise what this person does to them and how it affects the way they think and feel. The writer then ends the song feeling lost and scared


I think it's important to add that there isn't a wrong way to consume a song. For anyone who's feeling a bit inadequate, that your interpretation doesn't aline with Dodie's or maybe you didn't interpret at all bc it's just a nice song to have on repeat - that's completely fine! While art is meant to be deciphered and analysed, above all it is meant to be appreciated! There is no wrong way to listen to great music <3


honestly while i hadn't thought all that much about what i thought it meant, i definitely had vague notions, and your analysis made sense to all of them. the only think that caught me off guard was "so breathe, breathe with me" 'cause i had like, panic attack in my head. so literally breathe with me, help calm me, drink my thoughts 'cause i cant stand them. so when you said "more likely they're fucking" i went WAIT WHAT<br>ASEXUAL ME STRIKES AGAIN

honestly while i hadn't thought all that much about what i thought it meant, i definitely had vague notions, and your analysis made sense to all of them. the only think that caught me off guard was "so breathe, breathe with me" 'cause i had like, panic attack in my head. so literally breathe with me, help calm me, drink my thoughts 'cause i cant stand them. so when you said "more likely they're fucking" i went WAIT WHAT
ASEXUAL ME STRIKES AGAIN


To me it's always been kind of a song from a sick hopeless romantic who one day dreams of some one to love but there are a few like "glitches" in her romantic fantasies where her sadness and sickness reveal themselves

Also this song depicts me perfectly as I am a hopelessly romantic daydreamer with social anxiety


personally i view the song as what a relationship would look like with someone who has mental illnesses and the other person does not and how they both try to understand what each other are thinking and how it can be frustrating and masking the problem of not communicating thoroughly and just leaving the conversation short. i honestly think the music video for sick of losing soulmates fits this song well too! it was cool concept for the music video intertwined, but i think it would have gone better with a different song personally <3


I always imagined two people underneath the stars and one of them is trying to reach towards the other person (like speaking to them) but the other person is telling them to leave it and enjoy right here and now. But the other person can't enjoy the beautiful night and stars because they feel numb and are reaching out to the other person but are being let down. The other person is enjoy the night but feels pinned down to the weight of the other persons thoughts. It's just what I imagined when I first listen to the song and I imagined to ending as the person trying to reach out turning to the side and trying to laugh away the fear which is slowly taking over them. lol I know it's dark but it's just my thought love you Dodie 💞


this video just makes me realize (once again) that I'm just too stupid to write songs. I'm just not smart enough.


whoa, this is probably just me cause english isnt my first language but i always thought "can you drink all my thoughts" meant get drunk with me until i literally pass out so i dont have any thoughts anymore. lol !


Dodie, I love intertwined and I really want to understand what your thoughts were behind it, but I don't understand what you mean because of the way you say it :( if you or anyone for that matter please explain it in a simpler English?love you!


i always thought the song was about a love between two people but one has a mental illness and doesn't want to hurt the other. the "numb, fine" is a conversation between the two. the mentally ill one describing how they feel with "numb" and their lover saying it's "fine" and they'll still love them. the "i pinned each and every hope on you i hope that you don't bleed with me" is the ill one saying that they don't want to ruin their lover's life with the burden of their love. then states again that they're afraid. the lover responds with "but we can stay here and laugh away the fears" saying that they can laugh away the problems and just live in their love


i think the way i interpreted it was kind of a mix between how you wrote and and the sweet romantic way a lot of people interpreted it as. like you, i thought of the song being written from the point of view of someone with a mental illness like depression or anxiety but they're maybe a bit more hopeful? like its about those moments when you're laying down just cuddling with someone you care about and you know that your brain is a bit fucked and you also know that just being with that person isnt going to fix it because thats not how mental illness works but still it's comforting knowing that you're not alone and that someone cares about you. so yeah for me the song is basically "my brain isn't doing great and there's nothing you can do about it but i appreciate you being here nonetheless" (thats just from my personal experience of being in a relationship and having anxiety) (pls i love you and i love this song <3)


"can you drink all my thoughts" made me think the other person in the relationship had a thing with alcohol to try and deal with their partner's issues but that sounds so dumb now hahah


If i were tomato a music video, I would have it start off with this person that is make out of paper, they are black and white and everyone else is in colour, i would then throughout the song make they person they are singing to turn into black and white version. At the point of drink all my thoughts both, and their house, would be in black and white with a very colourful world outside; the are locked out by a big lock on all of the doors.  I really needed to write this it has lifted a weight off my shoulders


I personally interpreted the song as the writer was going through a rough patch with their mental health and they're taking their mind off it all by becoming involved with another person who is taking In their thoughts but maybe starts applying these thoughts of the writer to themselves? I don't know how to explain it but for example if the writer thought she needed to lose weight and went on some crazy diet and lived off water for weeks, then the other person, who might've never had an issue with their weight before, suddenly believe that they too must loose weight. I also think that the writer would then become dependant on the other person and see them as an outlet whilst the other person just comforts them and reminds them it'll all get better and stuff, whilst getting dragged more and more into this pit of mental health issues. That's why I think the song contrasts so much because this other person has two faces, the kind comforting face the writer sees and the down face that the other person is turning more and more into mainly because the writer is feeding them with these negative thoughts an feelings whilst this makes them feel a bit better its making the other person feel alot worse. I'm not too sure how well this theory or whatever fits with the song and music video but I also think this because of things that have happened to me in the past but I always thought of it a bit like this aha


I always took it as someone with a mental illness and when they're with their SO they feel relief like they haven't before kind of??? Idk if that makes sense


Holy fucking shit dude I am gonna swear a lot in this comment. dodie is so fucking talented like I've always seen her lyrics as absolutely beautifully written and so touching but this analysis has just blown me away to a whole other extinct. I've seen it as what I wanted. Thats how I have analyzed it. I gotta like a lot of mental health issues and what I am dreaming of is somebody who will just hold my hand and tell me encouraging words till I get to the other side. I used to want someone to save me but now I want somebody to just hold me through this shit. But this analysis makes so much sense and I've kind of thought about the fact that if I was to find that someone to hold my hand I would become so independent on them and they could in a second break me more than I already am so a toxic relationship as described in the song. dodie keeps impressing me and with this amount of talent I don't understand how she don't have a fan base of millions. Like that lyric is the same amount of clever as the poems I've analyzed in school.  It wouldn't surprise me if dodie become famous like those poems are now. She definitely deserves it and I'm honestly just so touched about how precise this lyric is to me and just how amazing the lyric is that I might actually have a breakdown.

Sorry for the rambling apparently I got no stop button.


songwriter of the year award goes to .... DODIE


AS AN ENGLISH MAJOR I AM LIVING RIGHT NOW DODIE


i love you so much ❤❤❤ i hope you had a great birthday!!! (same bday as my mum)


I kinda hit in the middle of Dodie's original thoughts and the commonly seen lovey dovey concept. At first I listened I saw all love and romance, but the more I listened the more I saw the dark undertones. I always interpreted the song to be about two lovers, but one is mentally ill and the other is not. The mentally ill lover feels like they are drowning and is so stuck in their own head and filled with all of these ugly dark feelings that make them feel both overwhelmed and numb at the same time. But the other lover, acts as their lighthouse, in a way. They are the lantern in the darkness, and they help guide the struggling lover back home to safety and love. Their unconditional high regard, physical reassurance, and acceptance of day's good and bad help keep them both afloat. As the song nears its end, both lovers have accepted that they want to be there for the other person, no matter what kind of day it is. So, with fear being the last word sung, it reminds the listener that love doesn't fix mental illness. That fear, those problems, will not just go away. But the fact that the lovers have each other makes it a bit more bearable.

But something to keep in mind is that I am in the exact situation I've just described, so my own life situation impacts the way I perceive this song. I'm a mentally ill person in a relationship with someone who's not mentally ill. And he's kinda my lantern.


this is actually really interesting, dodie please help with my english gcse!!!


I kinda thought the same, but less "unstable" and more juxtaposition. The lyrics  (to me) shows someone frantically trying to cover up a mental condition from a lover, occasionally slipping up, shown in the more gory and contrasting words.
The music video then fits that idea with the main object or noun, so to speak, being barbie dolls, which usually correlates to youth, innocence and, to some, happiness. However, the foreground (noun, barbie) is trying to cover up the background, or the verbs- what the barbies are doing. The gruesome and mentally ill things the barbie's doing constantly contrasts with the fact that they're just a barbie doll. This shows that like the lyrics, the writer is trying to hide/cover up a mental illness.
I would write another paragraph about the chords but I should finish this essay and start the one I'm actually supposed to be doing so have a conclusion:
To conclude, I believe that the overall song "Intertwined" is less unbalanced and more a story of how the writer is trying to cover up a mental illness, whilst simultaneously crying for help, which is shown in the fact that the song was written in the first place. This is a vicious cycle and can make the audience conflicted and possibly confused, but the more intelligent members of the audience would notice the underlying message and leave with sympathy for the writer.

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I see it as not just one person's point of view but the shared views of both people in the relationship. For me this relationship is new and exciting but both people have fears that something will go wrong because of their own individual problems.

{short version}
Overall I see people that have their own problems coming into a happy (but not necessarily healthy) relationship and trying to make it work without it crumbling around them. The song to me is a snapshot of a perfect moment where the fears are beginning to creep back.

{vv long version soz}
(• = each verse)
• 'Skin, heat...' - maybe it's just my dirty mind but I though this was the moment after sex. They are lying in bed and feeling as if time has stopped just feeling how they are in the moment. The physicality of the relationship. Everything being very literal in this verse which is very different to some other parts of the song.

• 'Oh you...' - Again time is stopped and in this moment when they are together nothing can get to them. They are safe but there is still the lingering problems (mental health, problems in the relationship itself etc.). They are in this moment and time is stopped because they do love how they feel in the moment but are both scared of what will happen once it is over because they know their problems will be hard to over come hence 'the world will try'. They are brushing this inevitability off to try and prolong the good feeling.

• 'Oh, I'm afraid...' - Continues the idea that they are scared that their own problems will negatively impact the relationship once time starts again but if they can stay in that moment forever then the relationship will be prefect. The fear comes from the fact that they know they cannot stay in that moment forever. They are also willing to try and really want to make it work - 'we can stay here'

• 'Numb, fine ...' - The mental aspects of the people and the relationship, this time not physical. Mirroring the beginning, this phrase is telling us about feelings in the relationship, but this time they relate to the mental issues that mean that even in the perfect moment their mind is still numb and fine. However, even with this, the other person can still make them smile and laugh while they feel numb. The word 'genuine' indicates the pretence of other smiles I.e. The person is hiding their numbness from the rest of the world and pretending like everything is okay when it is not. In this moment they are happy because their smile is real but they are scared for the time to end and the fake okay to come back.

• 'So breath...' - this again is them trying to prolong the good feeling before the magic wares off and times begins again. I think this is also an invitation to each other to know and understand everything about the other person all the way to their breathing pattern. The question 'can you drink all my thoughts?' to me is more of a rhetorical one. They are asking each other if they can tell them all their troubles but only asking to be polite. They know that there is trust within the relationship, even though it is a new relationship, as the two are so similar that they just understand each other. I don't think the question is 'can you drink all my thoughts?' But will you survive my thoughts? I think this because of the next line. Neither one can stand their own thoughts so they know deep down that eventually the others thoughts will crush them in the same way their own do. They share their thoughts anyway because it is a quick fix of support that will eventually fail. At this point I think time is beginning to start again but then...

• 'Intertwined (#plug), free (#absolutelynotrecordingisexpensive)' - ...but then either time slows again or they remember the feelings when time had stopped. Then they are kind of terrified that they have opened up too soon or in the wrong way or too much. It's kind of an I've told you please don't tell moment. As well as this it's the idea that they know deep down they cannot 'fix' each other but they really want to 'fix' each other and they really want to be 'fixed'.

• 'I'm afraid...' - mirroring the earlier sentiments but this time they are maybe saying it out loud to each other. They know they have problems but they hope that they can at least try to get through them. Here I feel hope that this relationship could try to support each other but also that fact that this is unlikely as they are basing it on a very fragile feeling, physically - the moment after sex - and mentally - emotional vulnerability.


+doddlevloggle I always pictured a person with extreme Anxiety (and possibly other mental health issues) being in a relationship with someone, (or how they perceive them to be) without mental issues. Although they are in love with this person and feel better alround them, they're scared to put all their problems on their partner and be a burden. They seek a safe haven in this relationship, by avoiding their problems (which can lead to unhealthy thoughts and feelings).They want to share, but are scared to. Ultimately they're afraid of the world, their problems, and causing problems for others, which leads to denying the fact that they have any problems when asked (The first Numb is internalized, and the Fine is what is vocalized and expressed to others) <br>I think this is similar to your theory, which i really love and can picture as well <3

+doddlevloggle I always pictured a person with extreme Anxiety (and possibly other mental health issues) being in a relationship with someone, (or how they perceive them to be) without mental issues. Although they are in love with this person and feel better alround them, they're scared to put all their problems on their partner and be a burden. They seek a safe haven in this relationship, by avoiding their problems (which can lead to unhealthy thoughts and feelings).They want to share, but are scared to. Ultimately they're afraid of the world, their problems, and causing problems for others, which leads to denying the fact that they have any problems when asked (The first Numb is internalized, and the Fine is what is vocalized and expressed to others)
I think this is similar to your theory, which i really love and can picture as well <3

This is my personal favorite song of yours because I think you can find so much meaning behind it :)


Does this count as English revision? ( also I love this)


this analysis fucked me up oh my god dodie ur a genius


HOLY YOURE SO SMART

(Also there is an English teacher at my school named ms.trueman 😂)


This is soooo good oml. I shall make an analysis!


omG on the thumbnaiil you look especially, extremely pretty 😍


I apologize if someone already pointed this out already, but I feel like the fact that people who initially listen to the song and then think that it's really romantic and nice go to see the music video and get confused as to why it's so filled with gore and violence may kind of capture the point of view of the person who is in this relationship. Like how they think everything is happy and alright but they don't actually realize the reality of it all??? <br>Yeah sorry for any grammatical errors I made lol

I apologize if someone already pointed this out already, but I feel like the fact that people who initially listen to the song and then think that it's really romantic and nice go to see the music video and get confused as to why it's so filled with gore and violence may kind of capture the point of view of the person who is in this relationship. Like how they think everything is happy and alright but they don't actually realize the reality of it all???
Yeah sorry for any grammatical errors I made lol


i've watched the music video like 10101929392930033 times


Can you teach me english lit please i could listen to your lessons all day


that video literally ruined the song and scarred me for life. I wanted to curl into a ball and bleach my brain....You can probably tell I have a fear of dolls


I sort if thought it was about falling out of love


why in the world weren't you my english teacher!!!!


Because of this analysis I'm gonna get an a* cause I know how to fucking donit


if my teacher is sick can you be a substitute or smthn


one question though, the little mmhm at the end is that a giggle or you confirming something? idk it always confused me..


i was eating crisps while watching this, so have to watch again :(


for.some.fucking reason
i thought that it was "hand in ur mouth" instead of hair
and always thought what the fuckck


+doddleoddle Please can you help me? I think I have Anxiety and Depression. I am 13. And that is the issue because my GP won't do anything until I have a diagnosis from a phycologist but the phycologist won't do anything until I get a diagnosis from the GP. How do I break this cycle? My panic attacks and depression are only getting worse. What do I do?


Hey dodie are you interested in being a teacher <br>PLEAS EBE MY TEACHER

Hey dodie are you interested in being a teacher
PLEAS EBE MY TEACHER


and why cant i learn this for english instead of stupid shakespeare


Idk why but I thought it was about a girl with schizophrenia and her boyfriend and though out the song a video she gets madder and sicker.... yeah I can get pretty creative