"Frontline" is a powerful breakup song, where the speaker asserts her autonomy and refuses to be held back by a past relationship. The chorus repeatedly emphasizes that the speaker cannot go back to the way things were before, and she won't be solely identified by her former partner's problems, or "blues". The speaker feels that her ex-partner had held her back in some way, causing her to lose herself and almost drown in her struggles. But now that she has pushed past this difficult time

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