I'm Actual
Unveiling Shadows: A Melodic Journey of Self-Reflection and Lost Love
Lyrics
Can we take the next hour
Expressing a desire to focus on oneself for the next hour.
And talk about me
Emphasizing the desire to talk about the speaker.
Talk about me, and we'll talk about me
Repetition highlighting the self-centered nature of the conversation.
Talk about me, and we'll only talk about me
Intensifying the exclusive focus on the speaker in the conversation.
Can we please take this hour
Reiterating the request to discuss the speaker for the next hour.
And talk about me
Continuing the emphasis on self-talk.
And my hatred for corporate magazines
Expressing dislike for corporate magazines and their inability to connect with the speaker.
You know they don't speak to me
Stating that corporate magazines do not resonate with the speaker.
The irony so the won't speak with me
Highlighting the irony of the magazines not speaking with the speaker.
I placed you on a windowsill
Placing someone on a windowsill, suggesting a figurative positioning of someone in the speaker's life.
Cut notches up and down the door
Creating notches on the door, symbolizing a record of experiences or challenges.
My surprise, I woke up one morn
Expressing surprise at waking up alone in bed.
In our bed
Indicating a sense of abandonment in the relationship.
In your place
Replacing the partner with a note in the bed.
Lay a note
Discovering a message in the partner's absence.
It read:
Reading a note conveying dissatisfaction with the level of love.
Baby your love
Quoting the note expressing inadequacy in the speaker's love.
It just ain't good enough
Highlighting the partner's perception of the speaker's love.
I found sunlight six hours away
Finding solace or fulfillment far away from the relationship.
You watered me down 'til I drifted abound
Describing a dilution or weakening of the speaker's essence by the partner.
Somewhere far from your shade
Moving away from the partner's influence and shade.
Now I shadow my former self
Acknowledging a diminished version of the speaker's former self.
Once holy, now lonely
Contrasting the past holiness with current loneliness.
A chest full of holes
Metaphorically describing emotional emptiness with a chest full of holes.
Red wax, it paints me unclear
Describing unclear emotions using red wax as a metaphorical medium.
When the big hand strikes twelve
Referencing a disappearance when the clock strikes midnight.
I disappear
Symbolizing a vanishing act at a specific time.
And the angels are fake
Asserting that angels are fake and deceptive.
They'll lie to your face
Accusing angels of lying to maintain distance.
Anything to keep you away
Suggesting that deception is used to keep the speaker away.
You watered me down 'til
Reiterating the dilution of the speaker's essence by the partner.
I drifted abound
Continuing the theme of drifting away from the partner's influence.
It's time I accept the fact
Recognizing the need to accept the reality that lying on one's back has buried the past.
That you on your back
Describing a physical position associated with burying the past.
It has buried the past
Concluding with the idea that lying on one's back has buried the past.
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