Drifting Girl

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She is running down that lonely road
All alone
Searchin’ for a place to feel at
Home again
But you don’t know where to go… do you girl?

She is feeling so blank and empty
Everyday
Broken inside,
Silence screams everytime she falls
This crazy life is consuming you.. consuming you

What are you running from? Your fears are driving you insane
What are you running from? You’re coming undone
What are you running from? You’re becoming someone you are not, you are not

She is running down that lonely road
Once again
Searchin’ for a place to leave
The day behind
But if you cheat yourself
You’ll stumble and fall

What are you running from? Your fears are driving you insane
What are you running from? You’re coming undone
What are you running from? You’re becoming someone you are not, you are not.

The song is about a confused, lost, “adrift” girl who seeks a place to feel at home, to feel accepted and not feel “wrong”. It’s about her feeling so empty, dull and broken inside and how these feelings make her feel weak, invisible and alone. Her restless fragility that leads her to escape from her problems following a wrong path that slowly consumes her and takes her away from real life.

The music begins with a dissonant arpeggio between major and minor keys that supports the melancholy guitar intro.
Thus, the intro leads the listener on the first verse to get acquainted with this girl in the third person register, who seems lost in her thoughts and walks the same road that she knows will lead her to nothing except to reinforce her fears and insecurities.

The melancholy mood of the verses changes in the chorus where the guitars become more aggressive and the singing is addressed directly to her to wake her from her torpor and open her eyes to a reality that is not what she lives, but exhorts her to become aware of her state of limbo to get out and free herself from her suffering.

The third verse takes up the image of the girl from the first verse, who continues to make the same mistakes and “fall” in the same way.

The following electric guitar solo tries to lead the listener to identify with her internal struggle that seeks a light but she is still in the dark and continues to let herself drift, culminating in the final refrain where after the final sentence “You are becoming someone you are not “the instruments suddenly stop and with a definitive voice and in the sudden silence it repeats” You are not! “.

The meaning of the song is to make this girl aware that she is not walking her path but an illusion to which she does not belong, not to give up being herself and to fight to defeat the darkness inside her.