In the previous blog, I explained my thought process as I wrote the song. However, the one thing I didn't talk about was the title of the song. That's because I wanted to elaborate on it, and its significance. Usually when I write songs, I make a title, then write lyrics based on it and the themes it represents. This song it no different.
I named the song: "Repress, Repress, Regret". Although it may seem simple, there was a lot of thought that went into this. Firstly, the title alludes to a medical acronym, RRR, which means Regular Rate and Rhythm (in regards to measuring heartbeats). In the song, I tried to imitate this idea of a heartbeat because blood is significant in Always Running, whether it refers to the denotation or the implication of family. In other words, I made RRR represent the violence and falling out of familial ties that occur throughout the book.
Next, focusing on the actual words, I chose "repress" and "regret" because that how I feel Rodriguez describes himself in the books. The first "repress" is how he feels repressed by everything, "Society", "racism" and "wealth" to name a few. This is explored explicitly though his details on events that occurred in his childhood, through the violence he's lived through. The second "repress" represents how he tries to repress his past and his weakness which is show by his constant prone to violence and his slumps of desperation which led to suicidal thoughts. The "regret" is exactly how it is, representing his regrets in the book.
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