‘What About Trouble’ paints a precise portrait of an inner state of emergency. The lyrics revolve around pain and the arduous process of getting back on one’s feet, while the will to self-determination is undermined by material scarcity, moral ambivalence and the concealment of vulnerability. The central movement is an inner confrontation: accusation and self-address fall on one and the same person, causing the conflict to escalate not between people, but within the subject itself. Loss has a double effect – it destroys bonds and splits identity until every certainty becomes fragile. The experience of time is particularly haunting: the past solidifies into broken edges, the present shrinks to pure breathing, the future appears as a cold trail on which orientation fades away. Hope and self-deception are so close together that the desire to ‘move on’ can tip over into mistrust at any moment. In the end, a defiant remnant of attachment remains, which does not negate the separation, but keeps it palpable as a persistent absence. The song asserts that coping is not heroic, but unvarnished: it begins where one stands up to one’s own darkness and accepts responsibility for both – for the wound and for the will to move on nonetheless. Conclusion: the song forces radical self-reflection and leaves a lasting impression.

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