to me, this song is about living with depression or anxiety, and the feeling when she goes onstage. how she can't talk to anyone, how she's withdrawn, she's fighting everything off, feels like she has to put up an act for people. But going onto stage, everything else goes away. "its a switch flipped. its a pill tipped back, its a moon eclipsed," " It’s in your bloodstream, a collision of atoms that happens before your eyes it’s a marathon run or a mountain you scale without thinking of size" means that going onto stage is like a high. "when the lights come on, ill be ready for this" is about stepping onto stage, the lights coming on and feeling different.
to me, this song is about living with depression or anxiety, and the feeling when she goes onstage. how she can't talk to anyone, how she's withdrawn, she's fighting everything off, feels like she has to put up an act for people. But going onto stage, everything else goes away. "its a switch flipped. its a pill tipped back, its a moon eclipsed," " It’s in your bloodstream, a collision of atoms that happens before your eyes it’s a marathon run or a mountain you scale without thinking of size" means that going onto stage is like a high. "when the lights come on, ill be ready for this" is about stepping onto stage, the lights coming on and feeling different.