On “17250,” glaive sings about a break-up that left him desperate for a girl. glaive uses the main idea of being cauterized as a way to describe his pain after the breakup, with the chorus and bridge symbolizing his pain and regret in the mistakes he’d made.

The track was formerly known as “cauterized,” and was first teased through disregarded lyric tweets in April 2022. It would be first previewed when performed live on tour at the Velvet Underground in Toronto, Canada on July 26, 2022, then once more prior to the release of “as if.”