What If
Facing Regret: Eight Feet Fine's Soul-Baring Journey
Lyrics
What if I stay instead of running away
Contemplating the possibility of staying instead of running away.
What if I finally would face my pain
Considering facing and addressing personal pain.
What if I am honest with myself and admit to myself that I have not been a friend
Acknowledging a lack of honesty and friendship with oneself.
What if I realized that I have let you down
Realizing that one has let someone down.
What if I know now I deliberately built walls
Understanding the intentional construction of emotional barriers.
What if I'm sorry and I dare not tell you because I am ashamed of it today
Expressing remorse but feeling ashamed to apologize.
I feel my sins burning deep under my skin
Feeling the weight of personal mistakes and sins.
I hope you know that you have been kept in my heart and all these melodies
Conveying that the person has been kept in the heart through music.
Can ́t handle this
Expressing difficulty in handling the emotional situation.
I often wonder what we missed
Reflecting on missed opportunities and wondering about them.
I often wonder what it is that makes me lie and distance cause you ́re not my enemy
Acknowledging lies and distance in a relationship, realizing the other is not an enemy.
What if I admit I always took the easy way out
Admitting a tendency to take the easy way out.
What if I wrongly blamed you just for my self-doubt
Recognizing the wrongful blaming of the other due to self-doubt.
What if I see now I've been blind and reckless and left behind everything we've built
Realizing blindness and recklessness in leaving behind what was built.
What if I am ashamed of how I acted in your case
Feeling shame for past actions in the specific case.
What if I often wake up seeing your disappointed face
Experiencing recurring visions of a disappointed face upon waking up.
What if I shout out to the world that I was a coward and I made big mistakes
Contemplating publicly admitting cowardice and significant mistakes.
I pissed on years
Expressing regret for wasted years and actions without understanding.
Not realizing what I did
Acknowledging a lack of awareness regarding past actions.
I ́m pretty sure you give a shit about this song and all these melodies
Suspecting that the person may not care about the song and emotions conveyed.
And you're right about this
Agreeing with the other's perspective on the song's limited healing capacity.
They cannot heal or even fix
Recognizing the inability of songs to make up for personal failings or heal scars.
They cannot make up for my fallings can't excuse or fade the scars away
Emphasizing the irreparable nature of mistakes and scars.
What I realized: it was my self-doubt I must face now
Realization that facing self-doubt is necessary now.
What I realized: it was my self-doubt I must face now
Reiterating the importance of facing self-doubt.
I pissed on years
Repetition of regret for wasted years and actions without understanding.
Not realizing what I did
Reiteration of a lack of awareness regarding past actions.
I ́m pretty sure you give a shit about this song and all these melodies
Suspecting indifference from the other regarding the song and emotions conveyed.
And you're right about this
Agreeing with the other's perspective on the song's limited healing capacity.
They cannot heal or even fix
Recognizing the inability of songs to make up for personal failings or heal scars.
They cannot make up for my fallings can't excuse or fade the scars away
Emphasizing the irreparable nature of mistakes and scars.
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