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Troublemaker Lyrics
Like a hand you reached out to me
The thunder rolls in with the dark
Tiny fingers on the edges
Watch it unravel pulling everything apart
In the night we stay together
The walls are shaking from within
Does it become you troublemaker
Watch them unravel you
Pulling everything apart
Some day out of the blue it will find you
Always
Always a face to remind me
Someone like you
Someone like you
Someone like you
You watch the shape these things are taking
Do you cry out in your sleep
Does it become you when you're under
Your heart is racing you're taking everything too hard
When you walk away
You show me how
Come pull me under
Some day out of the blue it will find you
Always
Always a face to remind me
Someone like you
Someone like you
Someone like you
Someday out of the blue it will find you
Always
Always a face to remind you
The thunder rolls in with the dark
Tiny fingers on the edges
Watch it unravel pulling everything apart
The walls are shaking from within
Does it become you troublemaker
Watch them unravel you
Pulling everything apart
Always
Always a face to remind me
Someone like you
Someone like you
Someone like you
Do you cry out in your sleep
Does it become you when you're under
Your heart is racing you're taking everything too hard
You show me how
Come pull me under
Always
Always a face to remind me
Someone like you
Someone like you
Someone like you
Always
Always a face to remind you
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Like many songs this band I think this song is about a haunting memory. The narrator speaks of images creeping in the darkness. Being reminded of a face or something else from the past. Various things that are triggering other memories. I personally have not had a severe traumatic experience but know people who have. They carry their trauma with them and it haunts them in a way that is described in the song. Very nice piece of song writing here.
my favorite song on the new album. It kinda hits home for me.
For me, this song is about a person letting go of their inner troublemaker. We get moments to be reminded of our past mistakes or machinations and relearn to let go. The title Bloom, for me, is an allusion to growth or transformation into something better or more beautiful.
"Like a hand you reached out to me" implies it's not about another person but a simile about being touched by an idea or concept. The darkness is the subconscious and we all get "unraveled" by the people we were before. "The walls are shaken from within" is another metaphor for this being about an inner space.
The verse following, "You watch the shape these things are taking" is like something being awakened from within. Feelings get built up and you've taken something personal. Which unleashes your "troublemaker".
"When you walk away, you show me how", is like when a feeling subsides you see that you can "walk away" from that feeling or feelings.
Finally, these deep feelings can be awakened seemingly "out of blue". The lyrics are very metaphorical and don't think should be taken for face value like maybe some of their other songs and for me makes this song the most impactful. Which is why it's my favorite off the album.
But I could be totally wrong.
@ToddBisMe I really love how you worded this! Thank you!! I wanted to understand this song and I feel that I resonate with your response, and interpretation of this song. This song makes me tear up and I just wasn’t really sure what it meant, but I am glad you broke it down and gave me a new perspective/perspective in general on the song???? I am obsessed with beach house! I am planning on seeing them in April!!! Which is my birthday month, I am beyond stoked ????
@ToddBisMe I really love how you worded this! Thank you!! I wanted to understand this song and I feel that I resonate with your response, and interpretation of this song. This song makes me tear up and I just wasn’t really sure what it meant, but I am glad you broke it down and gave me a new perspective/perspective in general on the song???? I am obsessed with beach house! I am planning on seeing them in April!!! Which is my birthday month, I am beyond stoked ????
@ToddBisMe I really love how you worded this! Thank you!! I wanted to understand this song and I feel that I resonate with your response, and interpretation of this song. This song makes me tear up and I just wasn’t really sure what it meant, but I am glad you broke it down and gave me a new perspective/perspective in general on the song???? I am obsessed with beach house! I am planning on seeing them in April!!! Which is my birthday month, I am beyond stoked ????
@ToddBisMe I really love how you worded this! Thank you!! I wanted to understand this song and I feel that I resonate with your response, and interpretation of this song. This song makes me tear up and I just wasn’t really sure what it meant, but I am glad you broke it down and gave me a new perspective/perspective in general on the song???? I am obsessed with beach house! I am planning on seeing them in April!!! Which is my birthday month, I am beyond stoked ????
I think this song has to do with breaking up with a person and coming to regret the decision later in life, and being reminded of them makes you feel ill physically and mentally. Their face makes you feel to the point where you would cry, to the point where being without them changes your life.
Depressing stuff.
I think it's about an abortion. "Tiny fingers on the edges". She's imagining what the child would've been like. Many people call their small children "little troublemakers". If this is true, this is the saddest song ever.
@paul113856 Oh my!! This is terrible ???? I think you definitely could be right! Wow ???? \r\nI’m interested in all of these different perspectives and ideas of this song’s meaning!
@paul113856 Oh my!! This is terrible ???? I think you definitely could be right! Wow ???? \r\nI’m interested in all of these different perspectives and ideas of this song’s meaning!