Gabrielle explained the lyrics to each song on her English Rain album on a blog post.

I wrote Panic Cord nearly 4 years ago now. It sounds a lot meaner than it actually was. In a nutshell, it’s about a boy that liked me more than I liked him. In fact I didn’t like him at all, and he didn’t understand that. It was hard to tell him because I didn’t want to be mean, but I guess in some situations you kinda have to. “maybe you were just too nice to me”

The song was later remixed by Hucci, before Genius verified artist G FrSH put his own spin on it.