Feedback and a quick count-in give way to the main riff with drums and bass already driving; the pulse locks in almost at once and gathers weight through the buildup around 0:16. Everything afterward rides this riff-and-beat frame.

Verse 1 introduces the vocal over the unchanged riff. At 0:39 the pre-chorus narrows into short climbing lines — it aches in every bone, I know it's me, you fear — and the last of them, if you want me, hold me back, holds the chorus off a beat longer than expected.

The chorus opens with the hardest singing so far and names the title — back to the remedy. Its job is declarative: state the refrain once, then hand straight back to the riff.

Verse 2 runs longer and turns the lyric inward — mending alone, the fireside invitation, I see my heart explode near 1:39 — so the chorus arrives from a higher ledge. Then two choruses land back to back (1:46 and 2:01), the second tagging the remedy line again; repetition does the work here, the cycle returning and immediately restating itself.

Around 2:16 the vocal drops out and lead guitar moves into the front slot over the same groove, peaking in the 2:37-2:42 stretch. Formally the solo delays the final choruses while showing the accompaniment runs fine without the singer.

Two more full choruses (2:54, 3:09) arrive at the track's most pushed delivery. After you'll be the death of me ends at 3:21, a final chord lands near 3:22, rings briefly, and the track empties into silence by 3:27 — a cutoff, not a fade.

One riff contract, stated, sung over, doubled, instrumentalized, and doubled again before being cut off mid-ring.