I relate to this song very strongly and in my opinion it is about an escape and sorrow of non-fulfilment. The tricky meaning of the word 'slipped' itself.
Neither You can meet the expectations of the place, you escaped from, nor stay in it, without loosing your mind.
It is a painful story of a girl that got away from & comes back to a destructive place (childhood city/ toxic family/ relationship/ all together?). She became successful through her hard work.
(clicks with - means become successful, the living dead- metaphor for workaholics).
'Counting the clicks with the living dead'
About the place, where everything slipped. She was away for a long-time. Perhaps, the reason must be personal and family related, since she comes back to it in her mind from time to time. She knows it is a destructive journey, but she needs to take it and stay strong. Perhaps it is just something reminding her of that place.
About the slipped relationship. The people you truly, genuinely, wholeheartedly love, go 'under your skin' and it is impossible not to think about them and if the feeling is not mutual, no matter how much you hate it, you cannot resist that feeling/thought. You can't get out of your head, you simply cannot resist coming back to a place, where you escaped (slipped) from. If it is not mutual, you really want to keep in like a 'skeleton in the closet'.
Somehow, something which should be a great virtue and sorts of strengths, support, ends up being your discreditable/ embarrassing secret (skeleton). You cannot change the other person, you take them as they are. Since she loves him/her, she tries to be there for her crush, support with everything successfully or not (being a friend or a fuck up). However the most painful realisation is that the expectations had not been met.
About the sorrow - the grief is not a solution, sympathy is better for an understanding why she had to do escape and couldn't stay. She still feels sorry for the expectations, she hasn't met, but will get over it and the destructive non-fulfillment thought will only come back from time to time.
I relate to this song very strongly and in my opinion it is about an escape and sorrow of non-fulfilment. The tricky meaning of the word 'slipped' itself.
Neither You can meet the expectations of the place, you escaped from, nor stay in it, without loosing your mind.
It is a painful story of a girl that got away from & comes back to a destructive place (childhood city/ toxic family/ relationship/ all together?). She became successful through her hard work. (clicks with - means become successful, the living dead- metaphor for workaholics).
About the place, where everything slipped. She was away for a long-time. Perhaps, the reason must be personal and family related, since she comes back to it in her mind from time to time. She knows it is a destructive journey, but she needs to take it and stay strong. Perhaps it is just something reminding her of that place.
About the slipped relationship. The people you truly, genuinely, wholeheartedly love, go 'under your skin' and it is impossible not to think about them and if the feeling is not mutual, no matter how much you hate it, you cannot resist that feeling/thought. You can't get out of your head, you simply cannot resist coming back to a place, where you escaped (slipped) from. If it is not mutual, you really want to keep in like a 'skeleton in the closet'.
Somehow, something which should be a great virtue and sorts of strengths, support, ends up being your discreditable/ embarrassing secret (skeleton). You cannot change the other person, you take them as they are. Since she loves him/her, she tries to be there for her crush, support with everything successfully or not (being a friend or a fuck up). However the most painful realisation is that the expectations had not been met.
About the sorrow - the grief is not a solution, sympathy is better for an understanding why she had to do escape and couldn't stay. She still feels sorry for the expectations, she hasn't met, but will get over it and the destructive non-fulfillment thought will only come back from time to time.