Meaning of the song chandelier and inspiration behind Sia’s composition

Meaning of the song chandelier and inspiration behind Sia’s composition. Before Chandelier, Sia was a singer with mediocre success.

How Sia came about the song Chandelier and the inspiration

The meaning of Sia’s song Chandelier is linked to a life experience cum challenges Sia faced after loosing her partner. Sia was really struggling to push her career when she lost her partner to an accident. She got addicted to drugs, suffered depression and even wrote a suicide note. Drugs and alcohol were her only coping mechanisms. This song Chandelier is about the time Sia was addicted to alcohol and drugs and her struggle to get out of it.

In an interview, Sia said that she always knew she was a drinker and that she must stop, her guilt, shame is what the following lyrics suggest:-

Sun is up, I’m a mess
Gotta get out now, gotta run from this
Here comes the shame, here comes the shame

.. but, out of peer pressure

phones blowing up, they’re ringing my door bells, I feel the love

..she did not stop.

1,2,3 R30; 1,2,3 drink

throw them back till I lose count

The only time she could escape from reality was when she was high, under the influence of alcohol and drugs. She could be carefree, live like tomorrow didn’t exist.

I’m gonna swing from the chandelier, from the chandelier
I’m gonna live like tomorrow doesn’t exist
Like it doesn’t exist
I’m gonna fly like a bird through the night

Chandelier is ultimately a brutally honest tale of substance abuse.

Sia wrote the song for Rihanna but I am so glad that she kept this one for herself.

The above is a clear Meaning of the song chandelier and inspiration behind Sia’s composition. Do you enjoy listening to Sia? If so then do let me know so that I will post the latest album.