Messed Up
86 BPM, choir-led gospel, gospel blues, call and response chorus, Hammond B3 swells, brush snare backbeat, muted electric bass, tremolo electric guitar, steel-string flatpicking, upright piano stabs, room mic drums, tape saturation, plate reverb, 1970s soul mix, half-time groove, swung sixteenths, intimate worship, cathartic lift
Messed Up
86 BPM, choir-led gospel, gospel blues, call and response chorus, Hammond B3 swells, brush snare backbeat, muted electric bass, tremolo electric guitar, steel-string flatpicking, upright piano stabs, room mic drums, tape saturation, plate reverb, 1970s soul mix, half-time groove, swung sixteenths, intimate worship, cathartic lift
Lyrics
Verse 1
I wore your name like proof
Now it fits like a bruise
Spilled all my good intentions
On the floor, on the news
I said, “I’m fine, I’m fine”
With my jaw too tight
But the whole room saw
What I hide at night
Pre-Chorus
I keep trying to fix it
With two shaking hands
Every time I touch it
It breaks again
Chorus
Messed up, messed up
I’m a little messed up
Say you still want me
Even like this
Messed up, messed up
Don’t let go too soon
I can love you hard
Through a cracked-up moon
Verse 2
Your shirt on my chair
Your glass by the sink
I tell myself I moved on
But I still overthink
I burn through the text
Then I stare at the phone
All this noise in my chest
And I’m not even alone
Pre-Chorus
I keep trying to fix it
With two shaking hands
Every time I touch it
It breaks again
Chorus
Messed up, messed up
I’m a little messed up
Say you still want me
Even like this
Messed up, messed up
Don’t let go too soon
I can love you hard
Through a cracked-up moon
Bridge
If I show you the wreckage
Would you stay and see?
All my sharp little pieces
Still sound like me
Final Chorus
Messed up, messed up
I’m a little messed up
Say you still want me
Even like this
Messed up, messed up
Don’t let go too soon
I can love you hard
Through a cracked-up moon
Messed up, messed up
Yeah, I’m still here
Hold me through the fallout
Hold me through the fear