Casual Sabotage

* EP
* Album

"**Casual Sabotage**" *(stylised in lowercase)*, released 18 October 2019, is the fourth song on YUNGBLUD's third EP *the underrated youth* and the sixteenth song on the Japanese version of the second studio album *weird!*.

## Background

"*casual sabotage*" was first performed by YUNGBLUD on 16 January 2018, in Belgium, according to setlist.fm. When performing the track over a week later, Dom revealed that he had only just written the track, and stated that the song is a lullaby. The song was performed a handful of times in the following months, before he took it off of setlist. Over a year later, in September 2019, YUNGBLUD performed the track in Seattle. On 23 September 2019, he revealed that casual sabotage would be released

After it was released, Dom himself stated *"This song is so important to me. I wrote this a while ago and I played it once at a show in Amsterdam. One of the biggest tattoos in my fan base is: ‘I need to exist’. This song talks about me, it’s the first time I opened my heart up, really. It’s about me being heartbroken and me not really being able to love again because I will casually sabotage myself every fucking time because of the pain and heartbreak someone caused me. But it’s a statement saying that I hold my heart on a plate. And if you hold your heart on a plate and someone was nasty enough or naive enough to take that for granted and stab it, don’t stop holding your heart on a plate. Because, if that’s who you are… let yourself be it. Don’t become hardened and jaded by someone else’s ignorance."*

## Lyrics

[Verse 1]

Hiding here in camouflage

When they said that they want me

You love me, you need me

Call it casual sabotage

You think that it's easy

[Pre-Chorus]

I'm tryna get to sleep with the lights on

'Cause I am confused and I'm frightened

I'm tryna get to sleep with the lights on

I don't understand this on my own

[Chorus]

I'm just a messed up kid

With sewn up lips

I can't take this shit

I need to exist

[Verse 2]

Sittin', staring at my watch

I can't tell if it's morning or midday or evening

The pressure got my head in knots

I don't always deceive it

[Pre-Chorus]

I'm tryna get to sleep with the lights on

'Cause I am confused and I'm frightened

I'm tryna get to sleep with the lights on

I don't understand this on my own (I don't understand this on my own)

[Chorus]

I'm just a messed up kid

With sewn up lips

I can't take this shit

I need to exist

[Bridge]

Burn me down till we're nothin' but enemies

And shut me out till we're nothin' but friends

Burn me out till we're nothin' but enemies (Enemies, enemies)

And shut me out till we're nothing but friends (Friends)

[Chorus]

I'm just a messed up kid (I won't ever hide alone)

With sewn up lips (She took my heart and cut it out)

I can't take this shit (Breakin' for the two of us)

I need to exist (Broken until there's only dust)

## Trivia

* Before it was released, this song was the most requested song to be released. The lyrics *"I need to exist"* are one of the biggest tattoos in the fan base.

## Buy/Stream

* YouTube (Visualizer Audio)
* SoundCloud
* Apple Music
* Deezer
* Tidal
* Google Play
* Spotify

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 YouTube (perfectbeat). — "Yungblud, Melkweg 28-01-2018 (part 2 of 3)" (28 January 2018)
2. ↑ setlist.fm — "YUNGBLUD Concer Setlist at Café Café , Hasselt on January 16, 2018 | setlist.fm" (14 January 2018)
3. ↑ YouTube (yungbludarmy) — "Casual Sabotage LIVE YUNGBLUD Seattle, WA 9/12" (12 September 2019)
4. ↑ YUNGBLUD on Twitter: "guess ur gettin casual sabotage" (24 September 2019)
5. ↑ YouTube (Lodewijk Roelen) — "YUNGBLUD - Casual Sabotage - Live at the Melkweg" (28 January 2018)
6. ↑ Official Charts — "Yungblud takes us through his new EP The Underrated Youth, track by track: "It's a tribute to individualism"" (23 October 2019)