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Decoding The Lyrics Of Luchi’s Heartbreaking Song “Fix This Love”

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With his emotional and heartbreaking song “Fix This Love,” singer-songwriter Luchi shares his innermost feelings regarding the challenge of helping a loved one from addiction. In this intimate interview, he opens up about the personal experiences that inspired the song’s haunting lyrics as well as his hopes for bringing greater understanding to the impacts of this complex condition.

1 — What prompted you to write this new heartbreaking song, “Fix This Love”?

This song was one of those 3 AM, sitting by my keyboard songs that just poured out of me. I have someone close to me who suffers from addiction and they just couldn’t seem to get a grasp on recovery.

This was my way of getting out how I felt about the situation without blowing up at them because I didn’t want to bring all my feelings towards the situation at that point. I wasn’t eating, sleeping, my life was turned upside down.

The song is the sister song to my last single Mountain which was about the addict’s journey whereas “Fix This Love” shows my side of the story and how addiction doesn’t just destroy the addict’s life, it destroys the lives of people around them too.

It is like emotional torture watching someone you care about destroy their lives and every effort you make to help them doesn’t work. I wanted to release them back to back so that people could see both sides of the illness. I really hope these two songs shine a light on an often misunderstood illness and we learn to have more understanding through it.

2 — I’ve noticed interesting vivid metaphors in your lyrics. Is that a deliberate creative choice, or does it naturally emerge during your songwriting?

This song just came out of me so they weren’t deliberate, they were just what came out of this brain of mine. I have spent a lot of time expanding my vocabulary as I wasn’t the most academic child in school and I think that has helped a lot too but if I’m honest, that has always been part of my songwriting even when I started at 13.

I’ve always loved having interesting ways of saying things as you want to be different and stand out. It was like with my song “Losing My Mind” released in January, the opening line was “me and tears ain’t strangers” and I just loved that line as a way of saying I’ve known a lot of pain in my life.

I even titled the whole EP after it. These kinds of lines just come to my mind so I guess I am lucky. I try to stay away from being too metaphorical though as sometimes it can be a bit much and the listener can lose the message of the song so a few are thrown in there to spice it up with the rest of the lyrics being more direct and clear is what I think works best.

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3 — The lyrics describe trying desperately to save the relationship. Do you personally believe it’s worth the struggle?

That’s a hard one to answer. I do believe in second chances but you both have to be willing to have difficult conversations and a level of trust needs to still exist for you to move forward.

Addiction is such a complex illness that it can be hard to say categorically if it’s worth the struggle. In my situation, I believed it was because I couldn’t give up on this person. There was times I was angry, times I was hurt but I never gave up hope in them returning to themselves and being able to beat it.

There’s a lot of conflicting advice out there that can be a minefield of knowing what to do for the best but for me, it was about setting boundaries, and expectations and then sticking to them.

If the person tries 100 times and fails, then I felt like how can you walk away when someone is actively trying but just not getting it yet because in life we all stumble and fall but if they give up, then for your own sanity, sometimes you have to walk away. As I said it’s different for each individual case and I can only say what worked for me.

In romantic relationships, I am different as I have had too much heartbreak to be settling for someone who isn’t ready and I don’t believe in fixing someone. I have enough work to do on myself so you go fix you, I’ll fix me and it just wasn’t meant to be as harsh as that sounds, the only person that can save you is you and I don’t think that it’s ever going to work if they are changing for you.

I also think it’s not fair to expect someone to change for you. You’re putting your expectations and beliefs onto them so they may be happy the way they are and that’s their prerogative, you have to accept and love the good and the bad in people and if you can’t do that, then they aren’t the right person for you in my opinion.

4 — Your lyrics consistently bring up the concept of the other person ‘fading away.’ Why do you think that particular emotion is something a lot of people can relate to watching a loved one in addiction?

It was a way of saying that the person is losing themselves. Every day another part of them is gone and they become more and more lost in the darkness.

It’s like the light in their eyes has gone out and they’re just a shell of who they once were. Addiction also changes the way someone looks, they can become either really bloated facially or frail and gaunt, depending on their substance of choice.

I remember going to an intervention set up for this person and I was traumatised after it because their eyes felt like they were black. It was horrendous to see someone in such darkness that I didn’t recognise them anymore and I couldn’t see them, I couldn’t see their soul… it’s an image that won’t leave me, unfortunately.

I think that a lot of people can relate to that in the addition circles because it’s like the person who you knew and loved has been taken over by a darkness that you can feel at times when you are dealing with a stranger. The things they say, the actions they take, the way they look, it’s unbelievable how someone you’ve known for a long can become someone you don’t know.

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5 — You use very emotive and visual language throughout. When you’re crafting a song, do you usually start with the sound or with these evocative verses?

To be honest, it’s different every time. Mostly it’s a melody or lyric that I hear in my head, and then the song builds from there, but there have been times where I’ve written to a track or a beat, and that’s inspired me in a particular direction.

I have hundreds of voice notes on my phone of melody ideas that come to me and a bunch of lyrical ideas in my notes as inspiration comes from all different places in life. With “Fix This Love,” I just sat at my keyboard and started singing; it just flowed out of me.

All the emotions were there, and it was one of those songs that wrote itself. I love it when that happens as it just comes out of you and you feel like you’re just a channel for the song, it’s a bit of an out-of-body experience and usually, those are the songs that people connect with the most because they are just real and authentic

6 — The line ‘Can’t say I didn’t try’ really hits hard. What’s the big message you want listeners to grab onto?

I want them to be able to forgive themselves no matter the outcome. I know that there was a lot of guilt I had and feelings that I hadn’t done enough to help or could have said something different but I think this song was what I needed to be able to write to forgive myself in this situation.

I had to be able to say that I had done all I could and be comfortable with that. I had to let go of the thought that I had any form of control over the outcome and know that it was the person who had to get better.

I could be waiting in the light for them but couldn’t drag them out of the darkness, they had to do that themselves. In my head I could see it as an image of them standing in the darkness with their back to me unable to turn around and see me waiting in the light for them and as heartbreaking as that is, it’s sometimes the reality of someone in the grasps of addiction and all you can do is hope they turn around and come to the light one day and be waiting there if they do.

7 — When you’re pouring your heart into these lyrics, do you find songwriting kind of like therapy for you?

Oh 100%, I sometimes don’t know how I’m feeling about a situation until I write a song and then look back at it and see where my head is at. I joke that if I’m in a relationship and start writing break-up songs then that usually means it’s time to go. Because songwriting is often like writing a diary for me, it is usually linked to what I am going through at that time so really does help me work out how I’m feeling because emotions and feelings can get muddled in the head but with songwriting, I can be honest and vulnerable and realize what’s actually going on.

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8 — Looking back at those intimate lyrics now, how does it feel compared to the moment you first put them on paper?

I don’t know if this song will ever not hurt. It is one of the hardest songs I’ve put out because it’s so real and painful for me to sing. When I hear it back or sing it, I am transported back to the time of writing it and I was a mess.

I don’t think I’ll ever be able to sing it live without a breakdown but I guess that’s what makes it special too, it moves me as well as I hope is going to move others.

9 — What deeper aspirations do you have for your songwriting going forward after sharing such an incredible tune?

Thanks for being so lovely about the song, it means a lot. I really want to work more with other artists helping them uncover their stories in songs because I write so much, there is no way I could ever use all the songs for me.

I write something most days, whether it’s a melody idea, lyrical idea, or a full song so that is my biggest aspiration, I love singing and releasing music but my true passion is writing. I could do that every day for the rest of my life and never tire of it.

10 — What would you say to someone going through a similar experience to the one described in “Fix This Love”?

I’d firstly give them a big hug cause it’s a lot to handle and the resources are limited. I’d say firstly you need to separate the addict from the loved one you knew in your head so that it is easier to deal with what is going on as they aren’t in their right frame of mind and then I’d say reach out to support groups and get the help yourself to guide you through.

Every story is different so I can’t give a concrete answer of this is what will work and won’t but you may head a story similar at a support group that helps you as we suffer alone but heal in the community.


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Hi, my name is Erick Ycaza. I have a BA in Advertising & Graphic Design. This blog is to provide you with daily music news and share my personal style.

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