All Our Bruised Bodies and the Whole Heart Shrinks Lyrics

Lyric discussion by AlexCanFlyyy 

Cover art for All Our Bruised Bodies and the Whole Heart Shrinks lyrics by La Dispute

This song seems to be a summary of the Wildlife album. songs like A Letter and A Poem seem to be the writer showing how he's unable to let himself recover. "She lost her kid, only seven, to cancer. She answered with faith in her god and carried on" is relating to I See Everything, and how the mother recovered, keeping her faith that God was doing the right thing, instead of turning bitter and losing her faith over her son losing his battle. "While he was attacked by his son and was stabbed in his stomach and his back and his arms. He showed me scars." relates to Edward Benz, 27 Times. The rest of this song is pretty self-explanatory. We'll all suffer at one point in our lives, some worse than others, it will all be part of our story. It's up to us to allow ourselves to recover from it. I think the song's also telling us not to hide things away. To tell people more about ourselves, even if it will make you come across as weak. If you tell people, even if it's just one person, there's then someone who knows more about how your mind works and can then help you better than anyone else could. This is a long, rambly comment, but that's what I see in this song.

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