Lyric discussion by Breakfast 

The song is about disorientation for me, the way that the mind goes into shock to protect itself from a terrible incident.

I notice that although there is a lot of duration in the song "feels like a lifetime sitting alone", "how many hours till i'm home" the whole story happens in the duration of a single MIA song, which suggests the time dilation that often accompanies a crisis experience.

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