Lyrics
Robbing all my good
Feeling deprived or stolen of positive qualities or possessions.
And keeping it for yourself
Accusing someone of selfishly keeping what is good for themselves.
Mental kleptomaniac
Describing someone as a mental kleptomaniac, suggesting they take from others mentally.
Taking from me what you lack
Pointing out that the person takes from others what they lack themselves.
Life can give and give but take away
Life can give and take away unexpectedly.
Without warning
Emphasizing the sudden and unforeseen nature of life's changes.
Building walls
Metaphorically building emotional walls for self-protection.
Collecting thoughts
Collecting thoughts for solitary therapeutic conversations.
For desolate therapy talks
Using thoughts as a form of therapy in isolation.
How are you going to live
Raising the question of how one will live without blaming others.
When you don't have someone to blame
Highlighting the challenge of living without someone to blame.
Pick a name, you're all the same
Encouraging the act of assigning blame by picking a name.
You're all the fucking same
Expressing frustration at the perceived sameness of people.
Taking the frames down
Removing reminders of the past to avoid dwelling on it.
So I can drown the past out
Attempting to drown out the past and move forward.
Trying, failing
Experiencing repeated attempts and failures.
Another day without you
Facing challenges without the presence of another person.
So I face this on my own
Acknowledging personal failure in facing challenges alone.
I'm failing
Reiterating the feeling of failure.
Failing
Emphasizing the ongoing sense of failure.
Take me
Expressing a willingness to be taken or influenced.
Do with me how you please, invade me
Offering oneself for others to do as they please.
Your concrete, has dried around my feet and bound me to you
Feeling bound and constrained by a relationship or situation.
You don't
Emphasizing the lack of understanding from others.
Know me
Stating that others don't know the speaker.
More than
Comparing self-knowledge to the knowledge others have of the speaker.
I know myself
Reiterating that others lack knowledge about the speaker.
You don't
Pointing out the limited understanding others have about the speaker.
Know me
Reiterating the theme of others not knowing the speaker well.
More than
Highlighting the speaker's self-awareness compared to others.
I know myself
Repeating the idea of self-knowledge being greater than others' knowledge.
So take me
Reiterating the willingness to be influenced or taken by others.
Fuck with me how you please, invade me
Expressing openness to being influenced or manipulated.
Your concrete, has dried around my feet and bound me to you
Feeling bound and constrained by a relationship or situation, repeated from earlier lines.
Now you're going away
Acknowledging the departure of someone from the speaker's life.
I guess you found something better than me
Suggesting that the person found something better than the speaker.
That unfamiliar venom you sling
Describing the negative impact of the person's words or actions.
Buried in my skin so you can poison me
Metaphorically expressing the harm caused by the person's influence.
Whenever you please
Indicating that the person has the power to harm or influence at their discretion.
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