Intro
Gm A#
Some lines, oh, why did I write
D# Gm
I have to repeat them night after night
Gm A#
Some lines, oh, why did I write
D# Gm
I have to repeat them night after night
[Verse 1]
Gm A#
Yes you can tell me I control my life
D# Gm
But I feel humbled and I feel obliged
Gm A#
I miss not caring if what I make is good
D# Gm
And I miss the unproductive bullshit I love
Gm A#
And I miss my friends even more
D# Gm
Because I'm scared we aren’t friends anymore
[Bridge]
Gm A# G#
Congrats to me for coming so far
Gm A# D#
Me rushing round Britain with a guitar
Gm A# G#
Making love to myself
Gm A# D#
How could I call it anything else?
Gm A# G#
I ruminate on the cognitive space
Gm A# D#
Where all contemplation is going to waste
Gm A# G#
Revolve through a cycle, a figure of eight
Gm A# D#
I think about thinking about me
Gm A# G#
I know I am trying too hard
Gm A# D#
Always publicly trying too hard
Gm A# G#
I want to be cool and effortless
Gm A# D#
But every little thing is so much effort
Gm A# G#
I wonder what you think
Gm A#
The royal you
Gm A#
The chosen few
Gm A# D#
I wonder how I cause these stinks
Gm A# G#
To act natural is to be vulnerable
[Verse 2]
Gm
And so what’s the real goal?
Gm
Is it just to be worshipped?
A#
As a way to like myself
A#
Well I won’t think I deserve it
D#
What I posit as a cure
D#
It becomes evidence thereof
Gm
Of my fakery and flaws
Gm
And as the layers are torn off
A#
And I return to my own space
A#
With time alone inside my head
D#
I’m still faced with who I am
D#
And all I keep unsaid
[Chorus 1]
Gm
So, what are you gonna do
Gm
What are you trying to do
D#
What are your goals
A#
Are you goal oriented?
Gm
What are you gonna do
Gm
What are you trying to do
D#
What are your goals
A#
Are you goal oriented?
[Verse 3]
Gm
So what’s the real goal
Gm
With any influence comes cowardess
D#
The power projected on me
A#
In the end makes me feel powerless
Gm
I’m paranoid, and yet perpetually interacting
D# A#
With realms to build persona despite how it’s impacting
Gm
My ego and my friendships and my mental health
D# A#
I hope I can transcend, but it’s my whole sense of self
Gm A#
So what the real goal, is it to touch people with experiences
D#
Which I’ve weaved into fiction
Gm A#
To share my thoughts and beliefs
D#
Of which I hold no real conviction
Gm A# D#
Become constructive contradiction so that you can learn from me
Gm A# D#
From the safety of these pedestals I built from fallacies
[Chorus 2]
Gm
I know I’m the fickle fucker
A# D#
I know I am the selfish lover
Gm
I know I am sad and undeserving
A# D#
I know am privileged and I am also hurting
Gm
I know I’m the fickle fucker
A# D#
I know I am the selfish lover
Gm
I know I am sad and undeserving
A# D#
I know am privileged and I am also hurting
Gm
I keep being told the importance of self love
A# D#
Some days I think I don’t hate myself enough
Gm
I keep being told the importance of self love
A# D#
Some days I think I don’t hate myself enough
Gm
I keep being told the importance of self love
A# D#
Some days I think I don’t hate myself enough
Gm
I keep being told the importance of self love
A# D#
Some days I think I don’t hate myself enough
[Outro]
Gm A#
And if you relate does that make you bad?
Gm D#
And for making you relate does that make me bad?
Gm A#
And do I glorify what it is to be sad?
Gm D#
Should you just turn off?