Drained
Resisting the Squeeze: Unveiling the Struggle for Soul and Integrity
Lyrics
They'll make you or break you
Emphasizing the impact others can have on one's success or failure.
They'll swallow you whole
Highlighting the potential for external influences to consume a person entirely.
They'll find you and bind you
Describing the capturing and restraining influence of external forces.
To every word that they own
Being obligated to adhere to the words and ideologies imposed by others.
But you know yhat you need them
Acknowledging a dependency on external validation or approval.
So you continue to feed them
Continuing to provide support or compliance to those external influences.
So I hope that you're in this
Expressing a hope that the involvement is driven by genuine and meaningful reasons.
For all the right reasons
Implying that motives should align with positive and ethical intentions.
They can't make you feel something you don't believe in
Asserting that external forces cannot dictate personal beliefs.
But they can threaten your future
Warning about the potential threat external influences pose to one's future.
And everything in it
Suggesting that these influences can impact every aspect of one's life.
When you fail to remember just where you've been
Reflecting on the danger of forgetting one's past experiences.
When you can't tell up from down
Describing a state of confusion or disorientation.
How do you write from within?
Pondering the challenge of expressing oneself authentically.
And all I know is that they're
Emphasizing the persistent attempt to exploit or exhaust the speaker.
They're trying to squeeze me dry
Reiterating the pressure and efforts to drain the speaker emotionally or creatively.
They told me
Conveying a sense of ownership and control asserted by external forces.
They own me
Reaffirming the claim that external influences assert dominance.
And all I know is that they're
Repeating the theme of external forces attempting to deplete the speaker.
They're trying to squeeze me dry
Reiterating the struggle against being drained or exploited.
I look in the mirror and what do I see?
Observing a changed self in the mirror, questioning identity and authenticity.
A man staring back at me who used to be me
Noting the transformation of the person reflected in the mirror.
He looks so familiar
Recognizing familiarity with the altered self.
He once had big dreams
Recalling past ambitions and aspirations.
But I can't see that he's been drained of his soul and inte-
Expressing the inability to see the former vitality and authenticity in the altered self.
grity
Ending abruptly, possibly suggesting an incomplete thought or a deliberate artistic choice.
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