Passion Pit – Little Secrets lyrics

Don't let the literal energetic and playful sound of the song fool you into thinking this is just about drugs. It's much more then that. Passion Pit's lead singer has publicly acknowledged his diagnosis of Bipolar Disorder on several occasions and as someone with first-hand experience with the disease, this song is clearly a narrative about someone's initial discovery of their condition. Bipolar Disorder disables and individual's emotional control, almost to a point where said individual's emotional responses don't resemble natural human emotion. Sometimes "you're" happy, or you perceive yourself as "happy" because you're filled with inexplicable energy and racing thoughts. Other times, 'you're' so depressed and depersonalized that even getting out of bed or making food is too difficult to fathom, which ultimately leads to the ideation of suicidal thoughts. Emotional swings can occur anytime, anywhere, and for any or no reason. Something like a spot of poor luck could send a Bipolar person into an episode of either mania, depression, furious rage, or hysterical fear. "Little Secrets" is about the tipping point of a person who's condition has spilled out of their own internal confinement and into the lives of those around him/her. It's kind of a sick irony, too, because the song sounds so jubilant and uplifting - making it perfect for marketing of anything from Taco Bell to Palm's last (and failed) attempt at a smartphone.

The beginning is deffinatly about his getting caught. Maybe with a girl hes nto supposed to be with or doing drugs and getting (higher) with his friends. And pretty much he doesn't wanna stop getting higher and higher so he tells them or possible the girl (let this be our little secret) and everything blows up into his face again, becasue he can't run away from his secrets. And the part where he says "oh have you ever felt so goddamn strong" he is saying how he doesn't understand why people care about why hes doign what hes doing "how comes it takes some people so damn long" either means to get over the fact that hes not changing or to realize that hes not doing anything wrong. And the rest of the song with him saying that hes ruined his family and name and his mother feel likes shes let him down but he "cannot help but to ignore the people staring at my scars" becasue he doesn't care what anyone else thinks. Idk maybe I'm over annalyzing it?