"A Hole in the Earth" is a single by Daughter composed for the soundtrack of Life is Strange: Before the Storm. The song is featured in Episode 2, "Brave New World", during Chloe's dream.
Lyrics[]
- In my own time
- I'm trying to reach out I know I'll get there soon
- There's a hole in the earth here
- And we're walking round the edges
- You were flaunting all your open wounds
- I can't express them better than you
- You have very childlish qualities
- Friend make sense of me, friend make sense of me
- I have many destructive qualities
- Friend make sense of me, friend make sense of me
- It's like an old rhyme
- Your father's a liar while my father's lying down
- In a hole in the earth there
- And I'm scared I'll forget him
- I'm still haunted by those open wounds
- I won't express them truly to you
- You have very childlish qualities
- Friend make sense of me, friend make sense of me
- I have many destructive qualities
- Friend make sense of me, friend make sense of me
- Friend make sense of me, friend make sense of me
- I have so much hurt inside me
- Friend make sense of me, friend make sense of me
- Friend, friend, friend, friend
- In my own time
- In my own time
- In my own time
Interpretation[]
The song is about Chloe’s struggle of dealing with the loss of her father William who is “lying down in a hole in the earth” and her desire to open up about her feelings to someone, a friend she can trust in. Like “open wounds”, the loss of her father is still affecting her deeply, and while she could try to move on, she is scared of forgetting him, and coping with self-destructivism instead.
Chloe doesn't know how to open up about her feelings and confide in someone. It’s really hard for Chloe to even express those feelings at all; instead she is just “walking around the edges”, never really showing what she truly feels. But with Rachel, someone who has issues related to her father as well and who she feels is so much better at opening up about her problems and feelings, she has found someone she wants to try and confide in, but also someone who can help her understand herself better and “make sense of [herself].” It gives her hope that “she’ll get there soon.”
Videos[]
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Before the Storm Soundtrack
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Episode One - "Awake" | |||||||
Licensed | "Are You Ready for Me" · "No Below" · "Through the Cellar Door" | ||||||
Daughter | "The Right Way Around" · "Voices" · "Hope" · "Departure" · "Glass" · "I Can't Live Here Anymore" · "Dreams of William" · "Flaws" | ||||||
Episode Two - "Brave New World" | |||||||
Licensed | "No Care" · "Crazy Suzie" · "Out of Line" · "Slaves" · "Just Hold On" · "Fly" · "Lucky Ones" · "One in a Million" · "Taking You There (Acoustic)" · "Heavenly Moon" · "Foolish Dreamer" · "Strange Shapes That Love Takes" · "Youth" | ||||||
Daughter | "All I Wanted" · "A Hole in the Earth" · "Improve" | ||||||
Episode Three - "Hell Is Empty" | |||||||
Licensed | "I Don't" · "Don't Mess With Me" · "Bros" | ||||||
Daughter | "Burn It Down" | ||||||
Bonus Episode - "Farewell" | |||||||
"Black Flies" | |||||||
Episode Trailers | |||||||
"Numbers" · "The Arch" |