Frustrate by BAD BUBBLE is a rough, positive observation on conflict, religion, and a seeking that endures. What the words themselves say is a yearning of BAD BUBBLE for something more than to be frozen in disappointment and reach beyond that which becomes static. Beginning at the beginning, the track allows for the assumption of a magical evening, something big and almost spiritual. BAD BUBBLE speaks of the evening being something that is theirs, to others that are genuinely creatives, almost to being the ones that are so bold that they stretch the bar. This assumption of owning the moment and that moment being something speaks a bold, stubborn energy for the words.

BAD BUBBLE is clearly about carrying the weight of old pain and anger but not letting that win. The appeal of not being disillusioned or frustrated anymore rings so true and so human. Rather than being stuck back in old pain, there is a push towards a new path, towards a new door being unlocked in another heart. The song implies that we’re going to always discover something new we have to learn and that positive transformation can be achieved through communion with other human souls. BAD BUBBLE reveals hope that, through communion, disillusion can at last recede.

It talks of time and faith, too. BAD BUBBLE declares a thousand years are not enough to lose faith, so faith gets ageless and irretrievable. This tone that faith shouldn’t give way even if life becomes challenging is the insistence of BAD BUBBLE. It seems a note of reminding oneself to hope for as long as long as it could last. It suggests that the spirit of all that matters is not so much so of giving way but courage for seeing through.

There is a wonderful counterposing of sorrows of former sufferings with a better hope. BAD BUBBLE speaks of being destined for greatness, but that sentence alone brings a tiny ray of hope for the words. On themselves, the singer is not afraid to say that something is amiss for that for which they previously took for granted to be “good,” that being slop, that they voluntarily opt for something larger than that. This section is a stubborn rejection of middle ground for something pure and true.

BAD BUBBLE’s lyrics put us in a place of being a part of something, of shared fate. In that assertion of “we were here, not them,” there is a feel of a big assertion of right to own tale, voice. It feels as if the song becomes not a song of BAD BUBBLE, but of anyone that is brave enough to believe that there can be something more. It being them always, that they’ve discovered some way back to the “heads of angels,” provides a sense of hope, of near-spiritual nature. It implies a return to a place of innocence, of creation, of something that was innately holy, that was a part of them.

Why Frustrate’s words are so powerful is that they’re truthful about the past but so founded on hope. BAD BUBBLE aren’t saying they’re hurting, but they’re not going to be defeated by that. They talk of seeking that ray of hope from themselves, from other humans. It’s unabashed strength of language, not safeguarded behind pretension but pure and truthful. It’s a powerful statement: even when we’ve got disillusion following behind us, we can opt to hope that there is greatness for us ahead of us and a new baseline. Overall, Frustrate is notable for being clear. BAD BUBBLE asks us to be a participant of a moment of bravery, break free of that which repressed us, and regard ourselves authors of something that will be left behind. In the words, we are cautioned that never is too late to turn another corner, discover something worthwhile to believe in.