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When I'm Down

Release date: 21st October 2016

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About This Track

Whethan and Oliver Tree build this track around a single, suffocating idea: the vulnerability of being at your lowest and facing someone who knows it. The production is sparse and tense, letting the lyrics sit unguarded. The chorus circles obsessively on the title phrase, a mantra of emotional exposure that becomes almost physical in its repetition. The song trades in the vocabulary of collapse. A head that blows up when alone, legs that give out, the sensation of being stomped into the ground. There is no resolution here, only the bridge's grim acceptance: "I'm down if you're down, there's no way around it." It is a portrait of emotional dependency that feels claustrophobic and inescapable, two voices locked in a dynamic neither can break.

"When I'm Down" is a track by Whethan, released 21st October 2016. Full lyrics are available below.

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Whethan

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Lyrics

When I'm Down

[Chorus]

My head blows up when I'm alone

Inside out, I might explode

I shut my eyes and my mouth and my legs just gave out

Why in the world would you hit me when I'm down?

[Refrain]

When I'm down

When I'm down

When I'm down

When I'm down

When I'm down

[Verse]

I get lost in and out when you walk in and out

Turn my hair in a knot, I get stomped in the ground

When I'm down

When I'm down

I get lost in and out when you walk in and out

Turn my hair in a knot, I get stomped in the ground

When I'm down

When I'm down

When I'm down

When I'm down

[Chorus]

My head blows up when I'm alone

Inside out, I might explode

I shut my eyes and my mouth and my legs just gave out

Why in the world would you hit me when I'm down?

[Refrain]

When I'm down

When I'm down

When I'm down

When I'm down

[Bridge]

I'm down if you're down, there's no way around it

I'm down if you're down, there's no way around it

[Refrain]

When I'm down

When I'm down

When I'm down

When I'm down

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When I'm Down

2016
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    Credits

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    Vocals
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