Alive Lyrics - Battle Tapes

Song Facts:

• Genre: Basically, the song belongs to the genre of electronic rock, which serves literally as a description of the song by mixing rock music with electronic sound representations.

Lyricists & Composers: Hailing from Los Angeles, Battle Tapes is the high-energy electronic rock band of contemporary electronica crossed with a tinge of aggressive synthwave.

Annotations and Meaning:

Alive by Battle Tapes is a sonic travel into emotional resuscitation and reflection against the setting of interpersonal dynamics and self-realization. The lyrics themselves do all the telling and take one along life's rocky seas, maybe with moments of self-doubt ("Been sailing seas of the spoiled and the rotten"). The difficulties and burdens of the figurative journey are thrown overboard; one is to come to be throwing off: been throwing overboard the once forgotten.
This is brought to life in the repeating lines, "Let 'em see how we've come undone, yeah / Let 'em see our hearts racing, racing / Let 'em see how you make me come alive," which continue to underscore the theme of unveiling oneself in a brutal and unrestrained manner. It is an invitation to experience the alchemical power of connection that will bring to life even that which can be considered existence in chaos. The repetition of this refrain points at the importance of that revelation, first to the individual himself and secondly to those surrounding him.

This now forms the common thread within the song: a paradox between the despair and the hope, between coming undone and finding a deep sense of aliveness. The lines "Even shooting the breeze becomes acrimony / You can break my heart, oh / Just do it slowly" pretty much encapsulate the kind of giving in to the inevitability of giving oneself over to pain and heartbreak but with some sort of stubborn hope that in the breaking, there is also a becoming.

The insistence that one needs to stop trying to make sense of everything ("Stop trying to make sense, make sense") is an appeal for the realization that the making of sense of everything is an exercise in futility when looking for logic in every place of life, especially where the heart is concerned. It's the recognition that sometimes the very nature of living fullness is found in spaces beyond reason, where we just let go and feel.

In short, "Alive" is a potent anthem of the dichotomy of human existence—dark and light, breaking and healing.