dailyhalseygifs:

I started writing songs that come from that post-Apocalyptic dark mentality. And it dawns on me that the whole thing is a metaphor. It’s a metaphor for a mental state. So I have been living in the mental Badlands for years and it’s this part in the center of my brain that is this booming city. It’s surrounded by unexplored territory. I can’t leave, and no one else can come in. I suspect something’s wrong, but it’s all I have ever known. I can’t change it. So it dawned on me that this whole dystopian post-apocalyptic world is really just a defense mechanism, it was me.