PUP – “Doubts”
“What’s left to lose? What am I supposed to do without you?” Stefan Babcock asks at the end of the “Doubts,” the third single from PUP’s upcoming sophomore album The Dream Is Over. There comes a point in every relationship — after all your dirty laundry has been aired out and there’s no mystery left, when you realize that maybe one person is more fucked up than the other — that you either both commit to sticking it out together, or one of you decides to pack up and run. Babcock doesn’t seem like the sort of person who would often take the later path; instead, he’s the kind to pine and and beat himself up over trying to figure out where it all wrong. “DVP” highlighted his self-destructive tendencies at their worst, and those echo throughout “Doubts” (“I spend more nights on the floor than in my own bed/ And I never see my family or my friends anymore”) as he sees the person he loves pull away from him at his lowest point. The Dream Is Over charts Babcock’s precipitous decline, and “Doubts” in particular thrashes with frustration over the feeling that the other person doesn’t see anything worthwhile in you to justify sticking around, and that there’s nothing you can do to fix it. “What am I supposed to do now?” indeed. Listen below.
The Dream Is Over is out 5/27 via SideOneDummy/Royal Mountain Records. Pre-order it here.