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Out of Control

by Ellen Beizer

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This song explores the struggle we often face in fighting self-destructive patterns. In "Out of Control", the singer appears to be addressing someone else in second-person narration, warning them against making the wrong choices and driving themselves closer to the breaking point. This choice represents our own dichotomous nature--how we distance ourselves from our faults and see them as an "other" instead of accepting that they are part of us. This distancing often leads us to repeat these mistakes, causing a never-ending cycle of pain and self-flagellation, and so the narrator describes the cycle as the song trails off on the repeating phrase, "There you go again..."

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Lyrics:

Don't know where, don't know why, don't know how
But you're hiding in the trees, guess you're running from me now
There you see, in the space between the leaves
Yeah, your thoughts are running free and they scream behind your smile
There you go again, fooling all your friends
Can't you see your end is coming down
To crush you underneath
Still, you grit your teeth
And watch your fingers bleed

And I know
That it's just the beginning
And I know
You can feel yourself spinning
Out of control

Don't look now but they're coming for your soul
There's a price upon your head and you can't pay the toll
Life is hard but dying's likely harder
There's a time and there's a place to make yourself a martyr
There you go again, you feel your morals bend
And this time you can't mend the damage that you've done
So watch your kingdom fall
Laugh as you lose it all
I guess that's your call

And I know
That it's just the beginning
And I know
You can feel yourself spinning
Out of control

Stop before you lose yourself
Stop before you lose yourself
Stop before you lose yourself
Stop before you lose

Don't know where, don't know why, don't know how
(Stop before you lose yourself)
But they're hiding in the trees, guess they're coming for you now
(Stop before you lose yourself)
Don't know where, don't know why, don't know how
(Stop before you lose yourself)
But they're hiding in the trees, guess they're coming for you now
(Stop before you lose)

And I know
(Stop before you lose yourself)
(Don't know where, don't know why, don't know how)
That it's just the beginning
(Stop before you lose yourself)
(But they're hiding in the trees, guess they're coming for you now)
And I know
(Stop before you lose yourself)
(Don't know where, don't know why, don't know how)
You can feel yourself spinning
(Stop before--)
(But they're hiding in the trees...)
--You lose...

All alone and crying in the corner
With no one else to blame, you're just a lonely mourner
Feel the heat of the tears upon your skin
Got so much more to learn, don't know where to begin
There you go again
There you go again
There you go again
There you go again

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released April 30, 2021
Performed by Ellen Beizer
Music and Lyrics by Ellen Beizer
Produced by Emerson Harris
Additional Instrumentation by Emerson Harris

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Ellen Beizer Los Angeles, California

Just a girl who spends way too much time on her piano instead of out in the world with the humans.

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