Hear What You Want
Unheard Echoes: Navigating Self-Doubt in Real Friends' 'Hear What You Want'
Lyrics
You only hear what you want
You selectively listen to what suits you
You only hear what you want
Reiteration of selective listening and perception
Knock me down
Feeling emotionally defeated
I'm not sure I have it in me to get back up
Doubting the ability to recover from being knocked down
To be who I am seems exhausting anyway
Expressing exhaustion in being true to oneself
You have a lot in common with my conscience
Comparing someone's influence to the inner moral guide; feeling conflicted
You both erase my confidence
Both the influence and conscience diminish self-assurance
I can't leave you
Feeling unable to separate from someone/something
You can't leave me
Mutual dependency; unable to break away
We've been stuck in here forever
Sense of being stuck in an unchanging situation
If I disappear, if I disappear
Speculating on disappearing or withdrawing
I can't see you, you can't see me
Mutual inability to perceive each other
We'll be lost in here together
Being collectively lost if separation occurs
If I disappear would you notice I'm not here
Questioning if one's absence would be noticed
Back and forth
Struggling between attachment to the past and uncertainty of present identity
Between some kind of vague attachment to yesterday
Constantly wavering between emotional connections and uncertainty of self
And never knowing what form of myself I'll get today (to get today)
Unknown self-perception each day
I'll always be a faded sign in your eyes
Being perceived as faded or diminished by someone else
No matter what the point of view (point of view)
Regardless of perspective, the perception remains the same
I can't leave you
Reiteration of feeling unable to detach
You can't leave me
Reciprocal entrapment
We've been stuck in here forever
Sense of prolonged confinement in a situation
If I disappear, if I disappear
Reiterating thoughts of disappearing or withdrawal
I can't see you, you can't see me
Mutual inability to perceive each other
We'll be lost in here together
Collective sense of being lost together
If I disappear would you notice I'm not here
Questioning the noticeability of absence
I'm not here
Feeling emotionally detached or absent
You only hear what you want
Reiterating selective listening
You only hear what you want to hear
Emphasizing the deliberate choice in what one wants to hear
I can't leave you
Feeling unable to detach
You can't leave me
Reciprocal entrapment
We've been stuck in here forever
Sense of prolonged confinement in a situation
If I disappear, if I disappear
Reiterating thoughts of disappearing or withdrawal
I can't see you, you can't see me
Mutual inability to perceive each other
We'll be lost in here together
Collective sense of being lost together
If I disappear would you notice I'm not here
Questioning the noticeability of absence
Would you notice I'm not here
Asking if absence would be recognized
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