Lyric discussion by Breakfast 

Cover art for MIA lyrics by Emmy the Great

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.

My Opinion