Munshaw’s ahead vocals over strums of an electrical guitar immerse listeners into the track from the opening line. As if she is talking into your ear, Munshaw recounts the tour van incident merely, however in a way that invitations self-reflection: We’ve all had less-than-perfect conditions redeemed by the presence of our closest pals. Nonetheless, there may be dejection underpinning the lilt in Munshaw’s voice, regardless of insisting that she’s “not unhappy anymore.”

The refrain introduces a bass guitar and percussion accompaniment to the electrical, conjuring a stress that parallels the lyrics, with Munshaw singing, “However in the event you gotta go, go. / We will blame it on timing.” She acquiesces to the potential for pals to desert her and attributes it to misaligned circumstance — if solely to make the separation sting much less. Close to the refrain’ finish, the bass and drums minimize, leaving a filtered guitar and Munshaw’s craving repetition of “shut.”

However in the event you gotta go, go
We will blame it on timing
I’ll go away the sunshine on within the corridor
Don’t wanna tie you down
To a chicken that’s not flying
Or maintain you anyplace however
Shut

Within the second verse, a extra outstanding bass and drumline emerge as Munshaw appears to replicate on herself, “the lady with the bangs” and “strawberry hair.” The keystone of the verse lies within the ultimate traces: “perceive she is mourning / The lack of an area in time.” After we grieve over a misplaced relationship, romantic or platonic, it may possibly amplify the worst components of ourselves. For Munshaw, it’s her mood. However she needs the listener to know her fury stems from adjusting to a bodily and temporal displacement: She is struggling to relinquish an previous model of herself.

She’s not mad and also you, you can see
She talks together with her arms
When she flips you the chicken
Perceive she is mourning
The lack of an area in time

An electrical guitar takes the result in punctuate the ultimate refrain, a section that echoes previous Coldplay songs blended with the transcendent riffs of songs like Ethel Cain’s “American Teenager.” Launching into the climactic outro, Munshaw turns her focus again to the track’s addressee, asking whether or not they tie the thought of residence to her. That’s, whether or not they look again on their shared time as a lot as she does.

“At all times felt we have been lightning / Simply ready to hit,” ends the track on an abrupt be aware, implying that Munshaw is ready for a reconciliation that may by no means come. It’s a tragic reality that individuals’s paths cross in such significant methods for a quick time, as a result of the momentous intersection can result in a break up simply as sudden. And infrequently, the estrangement is extra sturdy than the connection. Dealing with impermanence is a sophisticated process, however “Shut” does a outstanding job at capturing the ambivalence and fantastic thing about short-term love.

Oh and while you go residence
Is it me that you simply miss?
Are you able to divide the rotten fruit
From her pit?

At all times felt we went swingin’
Destined to overlook
At all times felt we have been lightning
Simply ready to hit

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