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Letdown

Release date: 14th October 2016

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About This Track

nothing nowhere captures the aftermath of romantic failure with unflinching self-recrimination. The song opens on a specific wound: breaking someone's heart on their birthday, then spirals into the speaker's inability to face what he's done. He's trapped in a loop of avoidance and self-loathing, unable to apologise, convinced he ruins everything he touches. The track builds around a simple melodic motif, repeated and varied, that mirrors the obsessive quality of regret. Lyrically, nothing nowhere moves between concrete domestic imagery (crying in a garage, driving past an old house) and more abstract psychological states: vertigo, anxiety spreading through his limbs, thoughts visible on the ceiling at night. The refrain crystallises his self-assessment into a single phrase: all he'll ever be is a letdown. It's a song about the weight of disappointing someone you care about, and the paralysis that follows.

"Letdown" is a single by nothing nowhere, released 14th October 2016. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 3 articles about nothing nowhere.

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Lyrics

Letdown

Broke your heart on your birthday
I would call, but I don't know what I could say
Only skin, only bone and I'm flawed
Crying in your parents' garage
So, I'll sew my eyelids shut
So I don't have to be reminded of us
'Cause everywhere that I go is a photo
Every night I'm in bed with the vertigo

It goes: da, da, da, da-da-da-da
Da, da, da, da-da-da
Da, da, da, da-da-da-da
Da, da, da, da-da-da
Every night I'm going: da, da, da, da-da-da-da
Da, da, da, da-da-da
Da, da, da, da-da-da-da
Da, da, da, da-da-da

Anxiety inside extremities
I'm losing touch, I got a tendency
To ruin all the things that I love
I could make amends, but you know I've had enough, oh man
Not right now
You would think that I would feel alive by now
Twenty something years and I'm still so down
Comtemplate on moving like my legs tied down, oh no
Tried to go inside, black on my back and the void is inside
I can see my thoughts in the ceiling every night
I can see my thoughts in the ceiling every night

So I'll drive all night through my home town
You can drive your knife through my chest now
I'ma crash my car by your old house
'Cause all I'll ever be is a letdown

So I'll drive all night through my home town
You can drive your knife through my chest now
I'ma crash my car by your old house
'Cause all I'll ever be is a letdown

Da, da, da, da-da-da-da
Da, da, da, da-da-da
Da, da, da, da-da-da-da
Da, da, da, da-da-da
Every night I'm going: da, da, da, da-da-da-da
Da, da, da, da-da-da
Da, da, da, da-da-da-da
Da, da, da, da-da-da

So I'll drive all night through my home town
You can drive your knife through my chest now
I'ma crash my car by your old house
'Cause all I'll ever be is a letdown

So I'll drive all night through my home town
You can drive your knife through my chest now
I'ma crash my car by your old house
'Cause all I'll ever be is a letdown
So I'll drive all night through my home town
You can drive your knife through my chest now
I'ma crash my car by your old house
'Cause all I'll ever be is a letdown

So I'll drive all night through my home town
You can drive your knife through my chest now
I'ma crash my car by your old house
'Cause all I'll ever be is a letdown

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