25

25
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**25** is RIELL's first release of 2023, as well as the third song off her upcoming album "Hymns For The Bitter". It was released January 31, 2023.

Listen to **25**

## Theme

**25** is about introspection and dissatisfaction with her life at twenty-five.

## Lyrics

[Verse 1]

2 am drunk in the back of a New Year's party

It's just me, Jack, Brandy, and a bit of Bacardi

Now I'm tryna remember what I forgot this year

How did I come so far and still somehow end up here?

I'm blacking out last year's resolutions in sharpie

[Pre-Chorus]

It's been the best and the worst three hundred sixty-five

Reasons why I'm unsure

[Chorus]

If I should laugh or if I should cry

Something kinda fucked about twenty-five

It could be better, I should be better, I

Fall in and out of love with my life

Too old to make it too young not to try

It could be better; I should feel better, right?

By twenty-five

[Verse 2]

Running late, slam my antis with coffee

Hearing ‘bout how much my habits will cost me

So I spend all my money tryna fix my mind

While I'm watching my friends settle down online

I'm patiently waiting but it's taking its sweet damn time

For my stars to align cause

[Pre-Chorus]

It's been the best and the worst three hundred sixty-five

Reasons why I'm unsure

[Chorus]

If I should laugh or if I should cry

Something kinda fucked about twenty-five

It could be better, I should be better, I

Fall in and out of love with my life

Too old to make it too young not to try

It could be better; I should feel better, right?

[Bridge]

It's all club bathrooms or wedding bells

It's a basement or house in the hills

It's nine to five or can't pay the bills

It's tell your parents you found the one

It's breakup so friends get you drunk

Thought twenty-five was supposed to be fun

I don't know

[Chorus]

If I should laugh or if I should cry

Something kinda fucked about twenty-five

It could be better, I should be better, I

Fall in and out of love with my life

Too old to make it too young not to try

It could be better, I should feel better, right?

By twenty-five

## Background

Background

* **25** was announced on January 26, 2023.
* A short acoustic version was recorded at a beach and posted on May 21, 2023.
* RIELL posted several TikToks of the making of the song, including the writing stage, early demo versions from the studio, as well as the process of recording the vocals.
	+ On January 23, 2023, RIELL posted a TikTok of writing the song, which showed the lyrics that RIELL didn't end up using for the song.

* On January 24, 2023, RIELL posted a TikTok of recording the song.

* On January 26, 2023, RIELL posted a TikTok of editing the song to be sent off for mixing.

* The vignette for 25 was posted on October 2, 2023.

### 25 Lyrics Graveyard

```
I made my resolutions and broke them by three
I already broke all my resolutions and I feel guilty
I already broke all my resolutions and I'm not even sorry
My resolutions are broke but it's not even started
I made my resolutions but my old habits got me
Three days and I'm messing up my resolutions

I'm keeping my eyes on the sky, blue horizon
I'm braving the storms, come alive
**There's a hurricane in my veins**
I'm dangerous and deadly, heavenly
**Born to reign, Throne of flame**
Like a tropical storm coming in, hurricane

Old Vienna
New Years
Empty City Streets
Summer Nights
Motel
Blood on my lips
So soon
Rock & Roll

They all seem happy, so I should be happy right
Guess I did it for nothing, I can't get it right
Trying to put the gold in my years
Thinking bout how much my therapist will cost me
It's fall in and out of love
Bought a house that I never leave

- Parents basement to Buy a house
- Meet ur best friends
- High on ur meds
- Checked into therapy
- All your friends settle down
- Or puking in the club bathrooms

It's      or run down hotels
It's old hometown or new hotels
It's picket fence

The basement of my parents to a house I buy
I thought I'd have more fun being/at twenty five

All my friends have settled down
Found somebody nice to love
Bring them every time they come around
The rest are out, they're five drinks deep

I take my meds and don't leave the house
Watching movies on my phone just to pass out on the couch
Spent all my money on therapy
I try not to take it too personally
That I pay people now to listen to me

I've switched my meds now, one or twice
Hoping one will dry my weepy eyes

Every time I'm mad I start to cry
I let immature boys make me cry

Sick of hearing every single way, I need to settle down

Garbage

Driving up a hill with emergency brakes on

I won't thank myself when I'm older
I'll regret this when I'm sober

How do I find the missing piece of my one track mind
It's like I'm driving in reverse looking for the missing time
I hear I'm supposed to be the best, can't forget, so I _______
Pushing twenty five

Hazy
I should give up
Falling in and out of love
Feeling jaded about things I used to love
Carving out space

```

## Sources

1. ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/Cn49tNsvWRb/?utm\_source=ig\_web\_copy\_link&igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
2. ↑ https://www.instagram.com/reel/CshNpsVgZSG/?utm\_source=ig\_web\_copy\_link&igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==