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