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Bittersweet
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Sep 14, 2026 updated
Chaotic Resolve album
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Song Meaning
Plumb opens with an image of accumulated weight — "old luggage" that's "been really bugging me," carried so long it's become normal to drag around. A phone call interrupts that routine, offering something she can barely believe: a chance to actually set the bag down.
Her honesty about the cost is unusual for a song about reconciliation — "you need to feel forgiveness, I need to feel resentment running down the drain," naming both sides of the exchange rather than pretending only one person has work to do. The chorus arrives almost physically: "now I can breathe, and I feel grace rush over me."
Paul instructs the Ephesians to let go of "all bitterness, and wrath, and anger" in favor of kindness and forgiveness in Ephesians 4:31-32, and Hebrews 12:15 warns against letting "a root of bitterness" spring up and cause trouble. Plumb's title captures the mixed nature of that release honestly — grace isn't painless, but "what I taste is bittersweet," not simply sweet, and that's still worth tasting.
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I've been carrying this old luggage,
And it's been really bugging me.
So when you called to see me,
I couldn't believe it.
Could it really be?
You need to feel forgiveness;
I need to feel resentment
Running down the drain.
This bruising chain I've carried
Is the pain that I am marrying today.
[Chorus:]
Now I can breathe,
And I feel grace rush over me.
It pours through my skin,
And lets you in,
And we are free.
Now I can breathe
And I feel grace rush over me.
It runs through my veins,
And what I taste is bittersweet.
The clock is always ticking.
Bitterness grows by the minute.
Why can't we realize?
The wounds that we're inflicting
On our flesh, it isn't healing
By keeping love inside. (Yeah)
[Chorus]
Now I can breathe,
And I feel grace rush over me
It pours through my skin,
And lets you in,
And we are free.
Now I can breathe,
And I feel grace rush over me.
It runs through my veins.
And what I taste is bittersweet.
Bittersweet.