crawling in my skin

"This one was the first time that I sat down and wrote about something other than sadness or heartbreak. It’s about me having sleep paralysis and hallucinating around my house, feeling this constant anxiety that a demon was watching me in the night. It felt good to write it because I had never really gotten those feelings in words before. I’ve always focused on some other emotions that were a little bit easier for me to address because I understood them more. It was a really poignant moment in my life." — Soccer Mommy, Pitchfork "This is a big shift out of the blue section. This one is really about hallucinating, having sleep paralysis, and paranoia, of just feeling like there’s something watching me and there’s something following me. It’s about the feeling that you’re constantly running from something. Obviously, it’s a huge shift in the record, and it comes in with a bang. It’s immediately more upbeat and the pace of the album starts to pick up. I think about it like getting your heart racing. During the time I wrote it, I was having a lot of trouble with not sleeping very much and just having this constant paranoia of auditory hallucinations. I had the feeling of being completely on edge for a while and feeling like even when it’s not there, the moment things get quiet, it’s going to be back. The moment that you’re at home and people are asleep, it’s going to be back, it’s going to creep back in." –via Apple Music Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.