Regarding Steven
Freedom's Echo: Unveiling the Hidden Struggles in 'Regarding Steven'
Lyrics
Well I've guessed your name and I'm sure you know mine
Recognition that the speaker knows the person's name and assumes the person knows theirs.
I'd like to discuss our mutual friend
Expressing a desire to talk about a mutual friend both share.
I can't help but feel that I left him behind
Feeling guilty about leaving the mutual friend behind.
Does he still stay with you or did his pain ever end
Asking if the mutual friend still resides with the person or if their suffering has ended.
I guess
Uncertainty or hesitation in making assumptions.
I don't deserve to know
Feeling unworthy to know certain details about the mutual friend.
If he ever let go
Questioning if the mutual friend has moved on from their pain.
I guess
Indifference or detachment from needing to witness the current situation of the mutual friend.
I don't really need to see
Not feeling the necessity to see if the mutual friend has found freedom.
If he wound up with you or did he ever break free
Curiosity about whether the mutual friend is still in a challenging situation or has achieved liberation.
When we were both young, you took us in
Recollection of being taken in by the person when younger along with the mutual friend.
And taught us to play survival games
Learning survival skills from the person, especially beneficial for the mutual friend.
He'd lost so much that you let him win
Allowing the mutual friend to win due to their losses, which didn’t affect the speaker similarly.
But I had a home so it just wasn't the same
Feeling a disconnect as the speaker had a home while the mutual friend didn’t.
I had the strength
Having the courage to say farewell.
To look you in the eye
Directly facing the person while departing.
And say goodbye
Gratefulness for not being in a situation similar to the mutual friend's.
I was lucky
Acknowledging luck for not having to go through the hardships the mutual friend faced.
And I didn't have to play
Fortunate for not being compelled to engage in similar survival games.
Does he still stay with you or did he get away
Querying if the mutual friend is still under the person's influence or has escaped.
I used what I had and I escaped
Using available resources to break free.
I smelled something good and I followed its track
Being attracted to something positive and pursuing it.
But all he could smell was the world that you shaped
Realizing that the mutual friend was trapped in the environment created by the person.
It took all my strength and I just couldn't look back
Struggling to leave due to the difficulty of the situation.
I remember him
Recollection of the mutual friend.
Calling after me
Remembering the mutual friend calling out.
I keep that memory
Keeping a vivid memory of the mutual friend's plea.
The last thing he screamed out aloud
Recalling the last words spoken by the mutual friend.
Was "Hey don't you leave me alone!"
Expressing the mutual friend's fear of abandonment.
Yeah he might live with you but he called me his home
Acknowledging that despite the mutual friend residing with the person, they considered the speaker as their home.
I guessed your name and some day so will he
Believing that both the speaker and the mutual friend will eventually know the person's name.
Cause one of these ides he's gonna break free
Predicting that someday the mutual friend will break free from the person's influence.
Cause one of these ides he's gonna break free
Reiterating the anticipation of the mutual friend's eventual liberation.
Cause one of these ides he's gonna break...
Emphasizing the certainty that the mutual friend will eventually break free.
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