Understood

By Leith Ross

On Motherwell

Released on October 16, 2020

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[Verse 1]

I'll visit my family

To give muscle memory a break

'Cause I've been learning since I was a baby

To take on their pain

I'll visit my family

In living rooms that don't get cold

'Cause blankets and body heat can't be compared

When it only took you a week to grow old


[Chorus]

Love can be understood

I'm sick of attachments I recently learned

I can't relax, and I'm scared of myself

I'm scared for my health

Tell me you'll take me back home


[Verse 2]

Old friends are precious

But once, all your old friends were new

It takes years of tense shoulders

When growing a person into something that you're used to

I'm sick of the feeling

That nothing will ever stand still

I wish I could stop


[Chorus]

Love can be understood

I'm sick of attachments I recently learned

I can't relax, and I'm scared of myself

I'm scared for my health

Tell me you'll take me back home


[Bridge]

When I get sad, I go back to my grandmother's house

And picture my mother putting on her wedding dress

Posing beside the same couch

That I am lying on

It helps to remember I took generations to make


[Chorus]

Love can be understood

I'm sick of attachments I recently learned

I can't relax, and I'm scared of myself

I'm scared for my health

Tell me you'll take me back home

Love can be understood

I'm sick of attachments I recently learned

I can't relax, and I'm scared of myself

I'm scared for my health

Tell me you'll take me back home