Annotations for Escape

Lyric: And it’s driving me mad
 And it’s driving me mad
Annotation:
You can hear Matt sing the end of the First Verse and Outro “To escape your meaningless And your insignificance” at this part of the song if you listen very closely at the distorted voice in the background. This could indicate that escaping your meaningless and insignificance is driving him mad.

Lyric: Why can’t you just love her?
 And why be such a monster?
Annotation:
This verse – or maybe even the whole song – is directed at the character’s father, who is assumed to have gone through a divorce (much to the rage of his son). This line implies that the father was bad to his spouse in some way, likely through physical and/or emotional abuse, simply because he didn’t love her. Many young children with parents in an unstable marriage are affected greatly by it – some even blame divorce or other problems that are the fault of their parents on themselves.

Lyric: And I don’t want you to think that I care
 I never would, I never could again
Annotation:
Matt almost seems to be trying to convince himself that he doesn’t care about his father leaving, that he doesn’t care about his father and that he couldn’t care if he wanted to because it’s his father’s fault.

Lyric: You’re uncontrollable
 And we are unlovable
Annotation:
Here Matt may be talking to his father, whom he may think doesn’t love him or his brother anymore, making him thus feel “unlovable”.

Lyric: You would say anything
 And you would try anything
 To escape your meaningless
 And your insignificance
Annotation:
Once again, this song could be a continuation of the “Unintended” speaker’s story, and this song may be about how the woman he has left doesn’t want the relationship to end, as she will either feel or literally be meaningless and insignificant if he leaves, which also backs up the idea of the woman being the parasitic other from Unintended and Uno. However, the chorus could be one directed towards himself, possibly berating himself for doing nothing when his parents divorced, like quite a few young children do.

