It’s all gone to hell.
It’s all gone to hell, and there is absolutely nothing you can do to reverse it. Your stages of grief are textbook: first denial, then anger, bargaining, and depression. Your emotions are spent, and you’re exhausted to the point of numbness. You take a deep breath and sink into your thoughts. Your violent shifts of emotions feel like they happened eons ago, like they happened to a different version of yourself.
“Excuse me for a while / While I’m wide-eyed and so damn caught in the middle”
And then you reach the tipping point, away from depression and into acceptance.
“Strong” is that tipping point when it hits you that you have no choice but to shrug off the past as best you can and look forward. Still short of a full-length album, London Grammar continues to release singles with unexpected gravity to them — singles that encompass something far greater than one could expect.