by Sam Gellaitry · 2024
The song “Assumptions” by Sam Gellaitry is about someone expressing their willingness to give everything for love while uncertainly questioning if their feelings are reciprocated and if they are correct in assuming the other person feels the same way.
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Assumptions’ by Sam Gellaitry is a song about wondering if someone feels the same way you do and being willing to give your all for love. We’re going to break down what this song really means and how it makes us feel. ⬇️
️ From the opening notes, the song swirls with a dreamy, almost weightless quality, as if we’re suspended in the haze of uncertainty. Its narrative is simple but potent: a voice, raw and sincere, yearning for reassurance in the ambiguous space between hope and doubt.
The chorus—repeated like a mantra or a late-night thought-loop—asks: “If it’s love that you want, I’ll give my everything… And have I made the right assumption? Do you feel the same?” There’s an aching vulnerability here, a willingness to lay one’s heart bare on the line, even at the risk of misreading the signs. We can almost hear the nervous breath between words, the unsteady heartbeat behind the melody, as the singer pleads for confirmation, for a sign, for anything to quiet the inner spiral.
In the verses (though the lyrics are cyclical), the repetition isn’t just for effect—it’s the sound of someone obsessively questioning themselves, replaying the conversation in their mind, searching for hidden clues. “Have I made the right assumption?” becomes more than a lyric; it’s a confession of doubt, the universal human fear of loving more than we are loved in return. Each time the question is asked, it lands a little differently—sometimes hopeful, sometimes desperate, always honest.
By the end, we realize the real subject isn’t just love, but the mental gymnastics we perform when our hearts are exposed, and answers seem just out of reach—a never-ending dance between courage and insecurity.
Sam Gellaitry captures the fragile magic of longing, showing us how vulnerable—and beautifully human—it is to ask, over and over, if our assumptions about love are true.
Writer(s) of Assumptions: Sam Gellaitry
