Little Secrets Lyrics

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Cover art for Little Secrets lyrics by Passion Pit

when I came down the dawn poured into me - waking up, needing your first hit to start off your day / or last night's binge catching up with you I shook 'em up the walls came crumbling - describing how he feels my thin skin trembling with these salty wounds - arms are raw from all of the trackmarks my stolen gold inside the emperor's tomb - heroin inside the needle

now painting rainbows on my ugly face - taking that pill/shot turns the shitty outlook into colourful and warm feelings :) I built this cardboard neighborhood's disgrace but I ascend and serve my feverish need - he understands he is addicted within the confines of such chemistry - explains the addcition is "confined" in the chemistry, so he's stuck inside the addiction.

It's the way I see - he only sees what goes through the drug first, drugs > everything Everything I need - it's everything he needs, right? It's no way to be - but he can't live like this, he's not sure how to get out though.

let this be our little secret - don't tell anyone no one needs to know we're feeling - that we're shooting up, feeling amazing higher and higher and higher - getting fucked up and feeling awesome higher and higher and higher - fucking awesome.

but I feel alive, oh, I feel it in me - now that I have my shot/pill, I'm fucking great up and up we keep on climbing - lets get higher, we don't want to go back to that morning state higher and higher and higher higher and higher and higher

my face blew up at such a casual sight - the shot/pills are making boring things seem amazing and alive again. the smattered colors of ecstatic fright - drug effect reference, he's describing the outside world to be frightening with euphoria the rush above me to oblivion - The rush of the drugs makes him feel amazing outlining wet sidewalks in halogen - I guess this sort of means he's in a daze walking along.

have you ever felt so goddamn strong? - these drugs give you so much confidence, it's amazing how come it takes some people so damn long - hurry up and load the needle he turned to squeeze the lemon juice to rain - Squeezing the lemon juice preparing the shot the citrus drawing out the scene in stains - The needle is loaded

Watch the basin drain - referencing his life going down the drain, or something important As your life lines wane - his life is ending if he continues And you can't explain - he feels great, he doesn't give a fuck, unless he hasn't had a shot ofc. As your friends complain - his friends see him with a sober mind, he's going downhill.

You've caused all this pain - the drug use is hurting people around you And you proudly shame - you understand you're hurting the people around you, you can't stop though Your whole family's name - your family is traumatized by your use, people think low of your family now.

mother, I can tell what you've been thinking - he knows his mother disapproves staring at the stars on your ceiling - she thinks about it at night, helplessly thinking once there was a power that you were wielding - he thinks she feels that she needs to control him, but she can't but now I've hit the mark, - common for hitting the vein properly. stabbing at the dark and I cannot help but ignore the people staring at my scars - people look at his trackmarks, he hates it.

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