Free the Animal
Sia Lyrics

I love you so
This song is about a love that is so intense it becomes self-destructive.

Wanna throw you from the roof
The singer wants to take her intense love and throw it off the roof, thus risking ruining the relationship.

The pressure builds
The pressure between the two lovers is increasing and becoming unbearable.

Wanna put my hands through you
The singer wants to be so close to her love that she can put her hands through them, becoming one with their being.

I'll squeeze you tight until you take your last breath
The love between the two is so entangling it's suffocating and dangerous, reaching to the point that one will almost die for the other.

Loving you to death, loving you to death
The singer is saying that she loves her partner so much that it might kill her, but she can't stop.

The pressure's rising I won't make it through tonight
The pressure is too much to bear and the singer fears she won't survive the night.

This love immortal is an assassin's delight
Their immortal love is like an assassin with a killer instinct, always leading them to danger.

Just blow me up or run me down or cut my throat
The singer wants to be destroyed by their love - whether it's a quick death or a slow and painful one.

And when it's time for you to die
When their partner's time comes to die, the singer is ready to go with them.

Detonate me
The singer wants to explode like a bomb - just like their love.

Shoot me like a cannon ball
The singer wants to be shot like a cannonball, ending things suddenly and impacting their love hard.

Granulate me
The singer wants to be shattered into tiny pieces like granules, representing the fragmentation of their love.

Kill me like an animal
The singer wants to die like an animal, representing the raw and intense animalistic nature of their love.

Decapitate me
The singer wants to be beheaded, representing the violence and intensity of their love.

Hit me like a baseball
The singer wants to be hit like a baseball, representing the impact of their intense love.

Emancipate me
The singer wants to be freed - both from their love and from their own emotional turmoil.

Free the animal, free the animal
The singer wants to free the animalistic nature of their love, releasing it from its chains.

I love you so I'm putting you in quicksand
The singer wants to trap their love in quicksand, taking them both down in the process.

You take your chances when you kiss the hitman
Loving the singer is like kissing a hitman - it's dangerous and can lead to death.

The animal's inside of this infinite jest
The intensity of their love has turned into a cruel joke, and the animalistic nature of their love is taking over.

Murder me, ruin me, look what you do to me
The singer is asking her partner to kill her, ruin her, to fully understand the devastating impact of their love.

Beautiful pain baby, pour acid rain on me
The love is both beautiful and painful, and the singer wants to feel it in its entirety, even if it hurts.

Kill me with your loving
The singer wants to be killed by their partner's love.

I'll slice you and dice you, like sugar and spice
The singer will do anything her partner wants, sweet or cruel.

I'll do all that you want me to on the beast in you
The singer will fulfill her partner's every wish, even if it brings out the worst in them.

Oh

Free the animal
Finally, the singer wants to break free from the destructive, animalistic nature of their love.