Control Lyrics Analysis

[Verse 1]

They send me away to find them a fortune A chest filled with diamonds and gold The house was awake, the shadows and monsters The hallways, they echoed and groaned

I sat alone, in bed till the morning I'm crying, "They're coming for me" And I tried to hold these secrets inside me My mind's like a deadly disease

[Pre-Chorus]

I'm bigger than my body I'm colder than this home I'm meaner than my demons I'm bigger than these bones

[Chorus]

And all the kids cried out, "Please stop, you're scaring me" I can't help this awful energy God damn right, you should be scared of me Who is in control?

[Verse 2]

I paced around for hours on empty I jumped at the slightest of sounds And I couldn't stand the person inside me I turned all the mirrors around

[Pre-chorus]

I'm bigger than my body I'm colder than this home I'm meaner than my demons I'm bigger than these bones

[Chorus]

And all the kids cried out, "Please stop, you're scaring me" I can't help this awful energy God damn right, you should be scared of me Who is in control?

[Bridge]

I'm well acquainted with villains that live in my head They beg me to write them so they'll never die when I'm dead And I've grown familiar with villains that live in my head They beg me to write them so I'll never die when I'm dead

[Pre-chorus]

I'm bigger than my body I'm colder than this home I'm meaner than my demons I'm bigger than these bones

[Chorus x2]

And all the kids cried out, "Please stop, you're scaring me" I can't help this awful energy God damn right, you should be scared of me Who is in control?

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The song is narrative based and comes from the genre of Electropop which is Halsey's signature genre.

The lyrics reflect Halsey's personification of her own Bipolar Disorder as she questions who is in control in the depths of her mind. Comparing it to her being sent away to a creepy house.

The verses are showing her when she's scared, that everything about the house she's stuck in is terrifying. That she is the victim in the situation and that she isn't the villain here; she's just as scared as the rest of them are.

However, the pre-chorus is that transition into coming to terms with who she is. That she want's to be more than the fear she has inside herself, she wants to be in control instead of the fear.

The chorus is her conflicting emotions coming out from her going to defend herself by saying it's not her fault she seems different to owning the fact she's different and that they should be scared because that's who she is. But at the end it seems she never knows who's in control and that it's tearing her apart.