Nerve Damage
Unraveling the Veil: Navigating Love's Decay in Saving Vice's 'Nerve Damage'
Lyrics
Hide your face because it gives you away
Conceal your identity because it reveals your true emotions.
The falsified moments begin to decay
Fabricated moments are starting to deteriorate.
A sensation we both know
A shared sensation or experience.
This constant ache that only you show
A persistent pain that only the other person displays.
We're chasing a feeling so much deeper than sorrow
Pursuing an emotion deeper than sorrow.
We're chasing this feeling a sensation that I know
Chasing a known sensation.
As I wander through these empty rooms
Roaming through empty spaces.
Scratching at the walls still no sense of you
Searching for a connection without success.
Is this the move that you chose to make
Questioning if the current situation was a deliberate choice.
Every instinct you lack you fake
Faking actions due to a lack of natural instincts.
The way we used to stare it feels gone to me
Feeling a loss in the way they used to gaze at each other.
Don't act so unaware
Acting oblivious to the situation.
You're the epitome of every reason that I tried to leave
Being the embodiment of reasons attempting to leave.
A shining example of our misery
An example of shared misery.
I know you think that I'm the one who's walking away
Perceived as the one walking away.
But you are, you are the one who's leaving
Realizing that the other person is the one leaving.
Face the facts turn your back you've got nothing to say
Facing the truth and having nothing to say.
Shallow steps keep walking your own way
Continuing on a superficial path.
Doors locked lights off pass the champagne
Symbolic actions of closure.
Toxicity compulsion giving you direction
Being compelled by toxicity, following a destructive path.
How do I live viewing you as perfection
Questioning how to live while perceiving the other as perfect.
And this is what you have shown
Revealing the true nature of the person.
Lying through your teeth to take back what you owe
Lying to reclaim what is owed.
As we fabricate the facade that you hold in the back of your mind it will fade
Creating a false front that will eventually fade.
From gold to rust I watched you change a touch that I could never shake
Witnessing a change from something valuable to something deteriorated.
Shut down torn out with no way to heal
Experiencing emotional shutdown with no chance for healing.
What's the point in pretending if it's never been real
Questioning the purpose of pretending when the reality was never genuine.
As you walk away my holiday
Referring to the departing person as a personal holiday.
But I hope you find yourself and in a better place
Wishing the best for the departing person's self-discovery.
I know you think that I'm the one who's walking away
Reiterating the perception of being the one walking away.
But you are, you are the one who's leaving
Acknowledging that the other person is the one leaving.
Face the facts turn your back you've got nothing to say
Facing the truth and choosing silence.
Shallow steps keep walking your own way
Continuing on a shallow and self-directed path.
Doors locked lights off pass the champagne
Symbolic actions of closure repeated.
Doors locked lights off pass the champagne
Repeating symbolic closure actions in the dark.
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