By: Daniellia Fariesya
The hardest feelings are sometimes the ones we cannot flesh out the ones that are carried in silence, between sighs, during the moments when one is all alone with their thoughts. Those are the instances that galau songs find us. They are no less than lifelines injected into our emotions. They say all those things we've always wished to say. They express the pain in our hearts that we weren't quite conscious of; that is until a melody wandered into our life.
When it hits the heartbreak: walking away into oblivion, or saying goodbye for no reason, music will take the hit. Lyrics like "You broke me first" or "Aku yang salah, melepasmu bukan pilihan" somehow gain a paranormal aura of intimacy, as if they were written about your story alone. You pause the song. You replay it. Somehow, the second time it hits even harder.
That's when galau songs come alive. Their enchantment lies not just in the melancholy piano riffs and the sluggish rhythms. That enchantment lies in their truth. The honesty. The raw emotion. It is a brand of truth that tells stories of heartbreak, confusion, yearning, and regret which most of us silently carry. It says to us: "You're not the only one shedding tears at 2 a.m., wondering what went wrong."
In the modern-day world that has a constant urge telling us to "move on," "be strong," and "get over it," galau songs give us permission to just feel. To sit with the pain. To not rush through healing. And that itself is comforting knowing that somebody, somewhere felt the same way and gave it a form.
So next time when your heart is heavy and there are no words for the agony, let a song
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