In A Box
Lost in Self-Deception: Friends, Betrayal, and Isolation
Lyrics
With friends like you, who needs enemies.
Expressing disappointment in the behavior of a friend, suggesting they are akin to enemies.
You got the coolest shoes but paid for them with pennies.
Criticizing the friend's priorities, valuing appearance over financial responsibility.
You're clouding up my views cuz you haven't got any, and everything I tried to do for you is lost,
Complaining about the friend's lack of vision and the efforts made for them being in vain.
and it's all gone now.
Emphasizing the irreversible loss of efforts and goodwill.
Your only sense of change is in your pocket,
Highlighting the friend's only interest in monetary changes.
and if I owned a door you can bet I'd lock it.
Metaphorically expressing a desire to shut the friend out from one's life.
I'd throw away the key unless you fucking stop it and everything I tried to do for you is lost,
Reiterating the need for the friend to cease their negative actions.
and it's all gone now.
Reiterating the irreversible loss of efforts and goodwill.
And I am sitting beside myself as I'm looking for you in the lost and found.
Feeling detached and searching for the friend who seems lost.
In a box on the floor, near the back door.
Describing the friend as being metaphorically "in a box on the floor," unwanted and neglected.
With the things people don't really want anymore.
Describing the undesirable items in the metaphorical box.
What's that you say, you like it there, in a box on the floor where you don't have to care.
Mocking the friend's apparent contentment with a careless and confined life.
In case you think you're qualified to make it out of there on your own and alive,
Suggesting the friend lacks the qualifications to improve their situation independently.
start thinking again, cuz the people you're with, they're not your friends.
Warning the friend about the insincerity of their current companions.
They have left you all alone, away from your home.
Pointing out the friend's isolation caused by their choices.
There will come a time when all your troubles, exceed your higher mind and make you see double,
Predicting a future where the friend's problems overwhelm them and distort their perception.
and now you need a dime to patch your bursted bubble and any other time,
Emphasizing the need for external help to fix the friend's shattered confidence.
I'd do it for you with out a shadow of a doubt.
Expressing a historical willingness to help, but a current reservation.
But now I'm sitting beside myself as I'm looking for you in the lost and found.
Reiterating the sense of detachment and the search for the lost friend.
Chorus
Chorus - To be interpreted in the context of the entire chorus section.
You do it every time, say you're gonna turn your life around and around and here we go again.
Expressing frustration at the repetitive cycle of the friend claiming to change their life.
Have you lost your mind?
Questioning the friend's sanity due to their repeated actions.
What kinda person do you take me... for my good friend,
Questioning the friend's perception of the speaker as a good friend.
I am looking...
Continuing the search for the lost friend.
Chorus - To be interpreted in the context of the entire chorus section.
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