Backup Plan
Unveiling Betrayal: The Weight of Being a Backup Plan
Lyrics
So let me tell you a story of how it all began
Introduction to the narrator's story and its origin.
You're fake, fucked, and boring
Addressing someone as fake, messed up, and dull.
The same as all your friends
Highlighting the person's similarity to their friends.
The same as all your friends
Reiteration of the person's similarity to their friends.
And while you stand there looking to heaven
Contrast between the narrator's action of moving on and the person looking to heaven.
I'm moving on again cause I've had it
Expressing frustration and determination to move on.
Don't make a sound (Don't make a sound)
Advising the person not to make a sound.
Cause you were another one that just kept me around
Pointing out that the person was just keeping the narrator around.
And I don't think that I can stand knowing I was a backup plan
Expressing discomfort with being a backup plan and uncertainty if they can endure it.
And I told you once before
Reiteration of a previous communication about not wanting to feel a certain way.
I don't want to feel that way anymore, so I'll let you go
Declaring the decision to let go and not feel that way anymore.
And give it everything I've got to never come back home
Determined commitment to giving everything to avoid returning home.
You had it all, and it's hard to watch you throw this all away
Observing that the person had everything and is now throwing it away.
I can't believe how much you changed
Expressing disbelief at the person's significant change.
You became everything I hated
Stating that the person has become everything the narrator dislikes.
I think you're fully overrated
Declaring the person as overrated.
Proving once again how much you can get underneath my skin
Pointing out how the person consistently gets under the narrator's skin.
Don't make a sound (Don't make a sound)
Reiteration of advising the person not to make a sound.
Cause you were another one that just kept me around
Highlighting that the person was just keeping the narrator around.
And I don't think that I can stand knowing I was a backup plan
Repeating discomfort with being a backup plan.
And I told you once before
Reiterating a previous communication about not wanting to feel a certain way.
I don't want to feel that way anymore, so I'll let you go
Reiterating the decision to let go and not feel that way anymore.
And give it everything I've got to never come back home
Reiterating the commitment to giving everything to avoid returning home.
Don't make a sound
Repetition emphasizing that the person kept the narrator around.
You kept me around
-Don't make a sound
-You kept me around
-You kept me around
-Don't make a sound (Don't make a sound)
Reiteration of advising the person not to make a sound.
Cause you were another one that just kept me around
Pointing out that the person was just keeping the narrator around.
And I don't think that I can stand knowing I was a backup plan
Repeating discomfort with being a backup plan.
And I told you once before
Reiterating a previous communication about not wanting to feel a certain way.
I don't want to feel that way anymore, so I'll let you go
Reiterating the decision to let go and not feel that way anymore.
And give it everything I've got to never come back home
Reiterating the commitment to giving everything to avoid returning home.
Never come back home
Finality in the determination to never come back home.
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