The lines "I put my socks on my feet / Just so that my soul won't / Fall through my toes / And I walk through my door / Just so I don't Fall through the floor" I can really identify with anxiety, and obsessive overthinking and seeking out patterns as a way to cope, to a point where it becomes toxic. Your brain begins to associate - in this song's case - putting on socks to keep yourself alive; irrational, but a thought process no doubt a complete possibility in the mind of somebody suffering from anxiety. The idea of repeated actions as a means of coping with life and not panicking, for me, is what these few lines mean.
They also link to Fairly Local, in the lines "I truly don't have a chance
Tomorrow I'll keep a beat / And repeat yesterday's dance ... Ii truly do have a chance / Tomorrow I’ll switch the beat / to avoid yesterday’s dance". The idea of breaking a cycle you get stuck in.
The lines "I put my socks on my feet / Just so that my soul won't / Fall through my toes / And I walk through my door / Just so I don't Fall through the floor" I can really identify with anxiety, and obsessive overthinking and seeking out patterns as a way to cope, to a point where it becomes toxic. Your brain begins to associate - in this song's case - putting on socks to keep yourself alive; irrational, but a thought process no doubt a complete possibility in the mind of somebody suffering from anxiety. The idea of repeated actions as a means of coping with life and not panicking, for me, is what these few lines mean.
They also link to Fairly Local, in the lines "I truly don't have a chance Tomorrow I'll keep a beat / And repeat yesterday's dance ... Ii truly do have a chance / Tomorrow I’ll switch the beat / to avoid yesterday’s dance". The idea of breaking a cycle you get stuck in.