Release Lyrics - Saleka

Song Facts:

Genre: R&B / Soul.
Release: 2024. "Trap" movie soundtrack.
Lyricist: Saleka Shyamalan.

Artist Info:

Saleka Shyamalan is an Indian American singer-songwriter and actress. She exhibiting a soulful voice with compelling, vulnerable songwriting, delving into themes of love. Her style blends traditional soul with modern elements, creating songs that are both emotionally resonant and stylistically contemporary. In the deep introspective part, she lets the listener peer into the thicket of complex emotions and relationships. Her first OST song was "Remain" performed by Saleka for the soundtrack of the film "Old" in 2021.

Annotations and Meaning:

Saleka's "Release" lyrics is a figurative dive into the complexities of an unhealthy love relationship, with love being compared to a "loaded gun." The metaphor seems to bring out the idea of a relationship full of peril but dangerously seductive from the very first contact. Beginning with the first lines, "I see danger / Your love's like a loaded gun," it is clear that the conflict and tension will be outlined, stating that the dangers exist with her involvement in their relationship.

The chorus goes, "I reach for nothing, cry tears for something That never will come away," thus exuding hopelessness and futility, driving the emotional difficulty and desire for a closure that is unrealizable.

The question "Can I keep the love or release us from the pain?" is finally that which asks whether to keep them out of pain or keep their love.

Verses two and three continue to plumb further the depths of his indebtedness of emotions and the scars which this relationship has bequeathed him. This is when he says lines such as "Help myself in your debt," and "Am I safer hiding from the damage done?" These lines pose the idea of whether the emotional security of distancing oneself is better than the vulnerability of confronting this other person. "I won't believe, I release you from me." These lines of narration decisively mark themselves against all preceding refusals to continue believing and holding on to such an eventually harmful love. What it effectively decides for the self—against clinging—instead shows the hard-earned determination of deciding upon self-healing against holding on.

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