Emergency Contact Lyrics
There's no greater vengeance
Than learning to enjoy again
Hope you get the message
Nobody's shatter-resistant (Shit)
[Verse 2]
Therapy is tiring
But so is hiding how you feel
You can bring the villainy
And I can bring the sex appeal
[Pre-Chorus]
Leave me something
Or let me out, I'm starving
Push me, pull me
Waiting for the start of
[Chorus]
Things that I want, this happily-ever-after
You choke on your words, but you swallow them faster
I sleep on the couch while you're passed out in the back
Just want you to be my еmergency contact
[Verse 3]
Balanced on a razor bladе
Lick you like a battery
Your speakers can't handle the bass
But you look good under the LEDs
Leave me something
Or let me out, I'm starving
Push me, pull me
Waiting for the start of
[Chorus]
Things that I want, this happily-ever-after
You choke on your words, but you swallow them faster
I sleep on the couch while you're passed out in the back
Just want you to be my emergency contact
[Bridge]
You're my angel
You're a fucking angel
You're my angel
All mine
Mine
Mine, mine
Mine
[Pre-Chorus]
Leave me something
Oh, my God, I'm starving
Push me, pull me
Waiting for the start of
Things that I want, this happily-ever-after
You choke on your words, but you swallow them faster
I sleep on the couch while you're passed out in the back
Just want you to be my emergency contact
About
“Emergency Contact” is about longing and desperation with wanting to take a relationship to the next level and requesting the partner to lead you there or let you go rather than being stuck in limbo. It is the second single and fourth song off of Pierce The Veil’s fifth studio album, The Jaws Of Life.
Aiming for simple yet powerful riffs and a ‘90s grunge vibe, Vic Fuentes told Rock Sound that the band traveled to Seattle—where the scene emerged—to write and record the song in Mike Herrera’s house to capture that classic grunge feeling.
The song’s desperation was portrayed in Mary Mouser’s performance in the music video, displaying her trapped in a bathtub which was a metaphor for the song’s meaning.
Q&A
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When you’re young and you go to the doctor, you always put down your mom or dad or guardian as your emergency contact. And then there’s this funny moment when you get older, and your emergency contact becomes your wife or your partner. God forbid something happens to me; my wife will be the one to help me. I got to record this one when I was staying up in Seattle at this amazing 100-year-old house owned by Mike [Herrera] from MxPx.
— via Apple Music
- 4.Emergency Contact
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- 10.Shared Trauma
- 11.So Far So Fake
- 12.12 Fractures
