What Gnaws At Me
Unveiling the Embrace of Lost Echoes: What Gnaws At Me
Lyrics
How do you lose someone you never knew?
Reflecting on the challenge of losing someone one never knew, contemplating the emotional complexity.
I never learned, I never had to
Expressing a lack of experience or preparation for dealing with such loss.
You're in the sunburn on my arms
Associating the person with a sunburn on the arms, possibly indicating a lingering and painful memory.
And the cherry blossom tattoo
Mentioning a cherry blossom tattoo as a symbolic representation of the person.
You'll be the thing I never had
Describing the person as something missing or absent in the speaker's life.
Helicopter seeds fall around you
Using the imagery of helicopter seeds falling, possibly suggesting a sense of randomness or unpredictability.
I don't want to carry you in my heart
Expressing a desire not to carry the person's memory in the heart.
I am not the breeze that will dispatch you
Denying being the force (breeze) that will remove or release the person.
You don't forget
Repetition emphasizing the difficulty of forgetting, but also a decision not to hold one's breath in anticipation.
You don't forget
-You don't forget
-Won't hold my breath
-You don't forget
-You don't forget
-You don't forget
-Won't hold my breath
-And I imagined us safe, singing Yesterday
Imagining a safe scenario and a reference to the Beatles' song "Yesterday," suggesting nostalgia and a longing for a better past.
And you sang what you never could say
Highlighting a discrepancy between singing and expressing feelings verbally.
I will not be from you
Asserting independence and a decision not to belong to the person.
I bend around the bow
Using imagery of bending around a bow, possibly symbolizing flexibility or adaptation.
You tore my feathery fletchings
Describing the impact of the person's actions, disrupting the speaker's intended path.
And threw me off my course
Expressing the realization that the archer (person) is responsible for the deviation from the course.
But I know the archer knows that it's got
Recognizing that the archer's actions have nothing to do with the speaker personally.
Nothing to do with me
Repetition emphasizing the detachment of the archer's actions from the speaker.
Nothing to do with me
-Nothing to do with me
-Nothing to do with me
-I'm so far away from where I was made
Expressing a significant distance from the speaker's origin or original state.
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