Don't Feel Much
Emotional Turmoil: Society's Grip on Feelings
Lyrics
Have you read the news today
Questioning awareness of current events
I couldn't believe front page
Expressing disbelief at a headline or news story
I've got a front row, seat
Having a prominent position in observing the world
Five days a week
Regularly engaged in this observation five days a week
And I don't feel much, no I don't feel much
Emphasizing a lack of emotional connection or reaction
Steal my friends from society
Feeling isolated as friends are taken away by societal influences
You laugh it off, but it's real to me
Others may dismiss the impact, but it's significant to the speaker
Forget how to feel so I cut to see
Resorting to self-harm as a way to feel something
Live by the book or your dead to me
Choosing to conform to societal norms or be rejected
Dead to me, dead to me, dead to me
Repetition of feeling rejected or dead to others
No, I never seem to change
Expressing frustration with a lack of personal change
Ripped away
Experiencing sudden and forceful separation
Another thing you take to drive it into me
External forces consistently taking a toll on the speaker
I know I'll find my way alone or never
Believing in finding one's own path, despite challenges
Or never, or never, or never
Emphasizing the persistence of challenges
Suffocating
Feeling overwhelmed or constrained
I'm so misplaced
Expressing a sense of being out of place
Your secrets safe, with me
Being entrusted with someone's secrets
I feel this way
Acknowledging a specific emotional state
Get away, get away
Desiring distance or escape
Run first base now I'm safe
Successfully reaching safety, possibly metaphorical
Second place on my way
Advancing but not securing the top position
Secrets safe from the grave
Keeping certain truths hidden even in death
Linden way never change
Staying true to a particular way of life
Messy space ugly face
Describing a disordered and unattractive personal space
Run first base, run first base
Reiterating the theme of reaching safety
Get away, get away from me
Expressing a desire for distance from others
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