[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]
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
One aspect of friendship is that your friends know you so well that you could talk about anything. But it is often forgotten that you were once strangers and that trust and bond had to be built up, just like any new relationship.
This line references the idea that our faces are a composite image of our ancestors; the way that we are literally took generations to create.