![frightened rabbit lyrics death dream frightened rabbit lyrics death dream](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/p4W5F_Y--7A/0.jpg)
As he sings of the “tinnitus of silence”, it sets the tone perfectly for Hutchison’s state of mind for this album: confused and lost yet hopeful that an exit might be nearby and ready to keep searching for the light. Hutchison has a way of making lyrics filled with a somber directness still feel like they’re shrouded in a fog of uncertainty, as though he can see the outline of shapes but is just unable to make it a whole. Take, for instance, album opener “Death Dream”. That detachment is ever present throughout the album and brought to life with Hutchison’s particular lyrical mastery. It deals with the anxiety of leaving friends (and fellow band members) back home to explore a new place he discovered he wasn’t particularly fond of. Much of Painting of a Panic Attack is inspired by Hutchison’s recent move from Scotland to LA, a real shift in scenery if ever there was one. Luckily, Hutchison’s lyrics still have the ability to send shivers of recognition down anyone’s spine here as they did ten years ago. From realising drunken one night stands aren’t the way forwards on Midnight Organ Fight’s “Keep Yourself Warm” to the life-affirming experience of love on The Winter of Mixed Drinks’ “Living In Colour”, Frightened Rabbit have somewhat cornered the market on goose-bump inducing stories.
![frightened rabbit lyrics death dream frightened rabbit lyrics death dream](https://texty-piesni.sk/images/com_lyrics/interpreters/lm/frightened-rabbit.jpg)
It’s been almost ten years since the first release of their debut, Sing The Greys, and in that time it’s clear that Hutchison has been through the ringer a fair few times. Painting of a Panic Attack is Frightened Rabbit’s fifth album and, with the help of The National’s Aaron Dessner, might just be their most emotionally mature and rich. So what do you do? For Scott Hutchison, you use that alienation with the new world you find yourself in to write an album. The smallest frustrations, that you would’ve otherwise brushed off back home, become the bane of your life, and what you were once so excited to explore becomes so vast and somewhat oppressive you feel detached from your surroundings. It’s refreshing to have them back, a band committed to the miseries and uncertainties of existence, and never dull in handling them.But, when that desire to go back to what you know so well, what’s comfortable to you, strikes, you can quickly find yourself picking apart everything that’s wrong with your new home. ‘Death Dream’ is layered, melancholy, uplifiting, and different for FR, if slightly. It’s a wearier sound, which asks, “what comes next?”. FR have clearly pulled back their sound there’s no cathartic crescendo to be found in ‘Death Dream’, unlike with ‘Acts of Man’ and ‘Not Miserable’. Here, what could easily be a funeral march, is hopeful thanks to the layering of different, lightly played instruments.
![frightened rabbit lyrics death dream frightened rabbit lyrics death dream](https://t2.genius.com/unsafe/300x300/https://images.genius.com/de45ccf8a5c85ff303b6561ad94e6cd2.300x300x1.jpg)
Hutchison has always had a knack for including hope in his songs, not just in the lyrics (still bleak here, with the line “A still life / is the last I will see of you / my painting of a panic attack” as a choice excerpt) but through the sound of the music. Yet when the guitars break into the song, they don’t take over, instead standing in line with the other elements. Frightened Rabbit’s new single from their upcoming fifth album begins with a sense of familiarity, the piano led verse akin to Pedestrian Verse‘s opener ‘Acts of Man’ with low chords harmonising with Scott Hutchison’s higher pitched, sad vocals.