Safety in Numbers
Navigating Change: Embracing the New Wave of Independence
Lyrics
What are you going to do with your new ways?
Questioning the purpose or impact of embracing new ways.
What are you going to do with your new wave?
Similar to line 1, questioning the significance of the new wave.
Maybe it's that you no longer care.
Suggesting apathy or indifference towards the changes.
Now you're so great.
Expressing a sarcastic tone about someone feeling great.
You've just got to stand there.
Highlighting a passive stance, just standing without action.
Or were you never even bothered anyway,
Suggesting a lack of concern or involvement from the beginning.
About the new wave.
Indicating a disinterest or disregard for the new wave.
What about the new wave?
Reiterating the inquiry about the impact of the new wave.
Did you think it would change things?
Questioning whether the new wave was expected to bring change.
Here we all are in the latest craze.
Describing a collective participation in the latest trend or fashion.
Stick with the crowd,
Encouraging conformity by sticking with the crowd.
hope it's not a passing phase.
Expressing a hope that the trend is not temporary.
It's the latest thing to be nowhere.
Highlighting the trendiness of being 'nowhere.'
You can turn into the wallpaper.
Metaphorically suggesting blending into the background.
But you know you were always there anyway,
Acknowledging a pre-existing presence without the new wave.
Without the new wave.
Emphasizing that existence doesn't depend on the new wave.
What about the new wave?
Continuing the inquiry about the transformative power of the new wave.
Did you think it would change things?
Questioning the expected changes brought about by the new wave.
It's just safety in numbers,
Stating that safety is found in numbers, possibly sarcastically.
When it's tricky, when it gets tough,
Describing the challenging or tough situations.
When you need to feel that you're good enough,
Expressing a need for self-assurance during difficulties.
All you pretty people who've been taken over.
Referring to individuals who have succumbed to the new wave.
Had better start looking for your own answers.
Encouraging those influenced to find their own solutions.
'Cause there's no safety in numbers anyway,
Suggesting that safety in numbers is not reliable.
Or in a new wave
Connecting the lack of safety to the new wave.
What about the new wave?
Reiterating the inquiry about the impact of the new wave.
Did you think it would change things?
Questioning the anticipated changes brought by the new wave.
It's just safety in numbers.
Summarizing that safety is merely an illusion in numbers.
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