Fear

## **Fear**Song by Sia

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"*Boy, why you living in fear?*"
—Mabel
"**Fear**" is the opening track from Sia's second studio album, *Healing Is Difficult*.

## Background

The song lyricaly speaks about people's fears and how they are held back by them. In the verse "My first love is already dead", Sia refers to the death of her first boyfriend Dan, who died in an accident in London a few years before *Healing Is Difficult* was released.

## Lyrics

*I reckon fear is like a, sort of*

*If you, if you're afraid of something that isn't there*

*Sometimes I do have fears*

*Shaking a bit, like I've seen ghosts or something*

*Sometimes I do have fears*

*Sometimes I do have fears*

My mother's afraid of the subway

It's a living bad dream

I hold her hand as the doors close

And she pales and stifles a scream

Ali's afraid of ad-libbing

Of improvising at jams

She is not very happy right now

And spends all her money on grams

And Ade is afraid of commitment

So Carla dumped him today

She was very disappointed

She was hoping he'd beg her to stay

And Ayo he just wants a girlfriend

He's afraid of dying alone

But he doesn't go out very much

Sits at home a lot getting stoned

You see fear is only holding us back

(Look closely amongst all your peers)

There is usually one thing that keeps us off track

(It is fear, it is fear, it is fear)

You see fear is only holding us back

(Look closely amongst all your peers)

There is usually one thing that keeps us off track

(It is fear, it is fear, it is fear)

Ella is worried about her weight

She won't eat in public anymore

She is fucking her ex again

When they've finished she sleeps on the floor

Nate has a heart of gold

But give it away he will not

His mother abandoned him at ten

It's a pain he has never forgot

Mary's afraid of herself

Her sentences often cut half

She will never give her own opinion

She's afraid that people might laugh

And I am afraid of sharks

I will not swim out past my head

And sometimes I worry my boyfriend will die

My first love is already dead

You see fear is only holding us back

(Look closely amongst all your peers)

There is usually one thing that keeps us off track

(It is fear, it is fear, it is fear)

You see fear is only holding us back

(Look closely amongst all your peers)

There is usually one thing that keeps us off track

(It is fear, it is fear, it is fear)

Candy is having a baby

She fears she will be like her mom

Her friends say "relax, take a deep breath"

And march to a different drum

Sacha's afraid of her Marco

She thinks that it's all her fault

But if he did what he does to a stranger

He'd be locked up and charged with assault

You see fear is only holding us back

(Look closely amongst all your peers)

There is usually one thing that keeps us off track

(It is fear, it is fear, it is fear)

You see fear is only holding us back

(Look closely amongst all your peers)

There is usually one thing that keeps us off track

(It is fear, it is fear, it is fear)

You see fear is only holding us back

(Look closely amongst all your peers)

There is usually one thing that keeps us off track

(It is fear, it is fear, it is fear)

(Holdin' us back, holdin' us back)

(Holdin' us back, holdin' us back)

(Holdin' us back, holdin' us back)

(Holdin' us back, holdin' us back)