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