He keeps his awkward thoughts to himself and knows that it’s merely a function of where he is in his life. This is a recurring theme in Matt Berninger’s writing….a story that will surely continue to be told on Trouble Will Find Me.

He thinks about how everyone is lost in the city. People that have come and gone from his life. Even people that are still close to him.

Being underwater is him feeling helpless and trivial to were they are in relation to his life. He recluses and trips himself out with this thought.

Matt waxes on the idea of how trivial we are as individuals within the massive city (New York, in this case, where he resides).

How helpless he is to when his loved ones, namely his wife and young daughter are out and about. He is helpless to the grandeur of the city, it is far bigger than he is:

Like spinach made Popeye extra strong, the beat makes Big Pooh rap extra tight.

Little Brother hails from North Carolina, hence the Carolina sickness

When i see a homie, i say “word up?”, but if i worked at microsoft, i could throw a “page up son?!” in there too, since it’s a key on a PC computer, famously made by Microsoft. So witty, Phonte…..

Talkin ‘bout cornballs, then he drops maze, making a play on the word “maize,” which is a synonym for corn (comes from the Spanish maiz:

He’s dubbing himself a legend and other rappers that have been in the game for a while know he’s got cred.

The first part of the song begins to settle and the big beat drops. Murphy told The Sun that “The track is two different kinds of songs. Literally, they’re part one and part two, but I didn’t want to do that because it’s pretentious.”

Murphy starts belting “Part 2” of the song and tells NME in an interview that:

“This is the song I lost my voice trying to do. It’s the highest song register I’ve sung… I’d vowed never to write anything that high for myself. But then I got excited about a synth sound and forgot all about my vocal range, and had to sing it with a voice that was blown out, but I took lots of steroids.”