Lyrics
Do you think I’d let you watch me fall?
Expressing disbelief that someone would witness their struggle without intervening.
Ever watch me fall.
Reiterating the idea of being observed during a difficult time.
How many times will it be fine?
Raising a rhetorical question about the frequency of experiencing difficulties.
When will it be enough?
Questioning when the challenges will become sufficient or satisfactory.
Words like a double-edged blade but harmless compared to those eyes, that radiate with pity.
Describing words as potentially harmful, but asserting that they are less impactful than judgmental eyes filled with pity.
No need to say it out loud.
Indicating that there's no need to verbalize certain thoughts or feelings.
I’ve already read your mind.
Claiming to understand the other person's thoughts without them being explicitly stated.
The tempest will rip through this lands and the flood will wash away this vanity.
Using natural disasters metaphorically to describe the destructive impact on pride and self-importance.
All this blame but why should I feel ashamed?
Questioning the justification for feeling guilty or responsible amid accusations.
I know how you operate.
Asserting familiarity with the other person's patterns of behavior.
I’m always going to be the one that you love to hate.
Embracing the role of being disliked but still central in the other person's emotions.
You’ve always looked away, away from this, away from me.
Accusing the other person of consistently avoiding confrontation or acknowledgment.
Either way I’ll find a way to exist.
Expressing determination to endure and find a way to persist despite external challenges.
Not even a lifetime can prepare you.
Highlighting the inability of time alone to prepare someone for certain experiences.
And you will never understand. I’ll be counting the days ’til you are silent.
Anticipating a lack of understanding from the other person and counting down until their silence.
I’ll be counting the days ’til you are silent. I am counting the days until you will be silent.
Reiterating the countdown to the other person's silence as a significant event.
All this blame but why should I feel ashamed?
Repeating the questioning of personal responsibility amid blame.
I know how you operate.
Reiterating familiarity with the other person's patterns of behavior.
I’m always going to be the one that you love to hate.
Embracing the persistent role of being the disliked one.
You’ve always looked away, away from this, away from me.
Accusing the other person of consistently avoiding confrontation or acknowledgment (repeated).
Either way I’ll find a way to exist.
Expressing determination to endure and find a way to persist despite external challenges (repeated).
Look at this, look at me. Through your doubt I found a way to exist.
Describing a moment of revelation where the speaker is seen despite the other person's doubt.
Beauty lies in the eye of the beholder. The damage is already done.
Stating the subjective nature of beauty and acknowledging irreparable damage.
Beauty lies in the eye of the beholder.
Reiterating the subjective nature of beauty.
Do you think I’d let you watch me fall?
Repeating the disbelief that someone would witness their struggle without intervening.
Ever watch me fall.
Reiterating the idea of being observed during a difficult time (repeated).
I’d rather have my body be numb from this constant fight than being safe from behind a glass wall. With bloody knuckles I will not let you oppress me.
Expressing a preference for enduring physical pain over emotional detachment, rejecting oppression.
How can you be so dumb to think that you’ll watch me fall.
Criticizing the other person's intelligence for expecting to witness the speaker's downfall.
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