The angsty 19-year old version of me had written a wonderfully angsty page that was the starting point for this song.
I don't necessarily fully agree with everything I say on the song - it's a process of testing out thoughts and different ways of seeing things. In line with that, this song is quite meandering and I can't say it's my finest work in terms of singing "cleanly", but it's not meant to be a "clean" song (are any of my songs that? probably not. maybe it's just my stern old kids' choir teacher's voice ringing in my head.)
If you feel like taking the journey with this song ~ enjoy!
And I hope you get to spend some quality time with
people you like who like you. <3
› Lyrics‹ Lyrics
Hopeless
We were never meant to be friends
We were never meant to be
friends
I should know that someone like you
and someone like me
can't be
can't be
can't be
Hopeless
Oh, it's just my fantasies
about how everyone should be able to be
kind and courteous
but it's not even me
even I can't be
even I who am perfect otherwise
No, I'm just
Hopeless
I thought everyone should try to-
Everyone should get along, but hey
there's so many different people in the world, and I
I can't expect us all to
I
I don't like everyone
Or I kind of do, 'cause
everyone has their place
What I mean is, I don't want to hang out with everyone 'cause
I'm an introvert
Anyway
This is my idea of a good time
Just me, a keyboard
Well, you
That's fine
You're not really here
I'm not really hopeless
'cause I always have hope
'cause I always have hope
It's good to be a bit hopeless about the things you don't really hope for
And I don't wanna be everybody's friend
I don't actually wanna do that
I don't wanna be everybody's friend
Wow
That's good to realize
Good to realize
I got an example of three categories:
There are people you like who like you
Then there are people you don't like that like you
Then there's the people you don't like who don't like you
And oh, the only people you need
The only people to focus on
You know
It's the people you like who like you
It's the people you like who like you
Well, the fourth category, you might think,
What is that?
It's the people you like who don't like you
But, do you know what I learned?
It doesn't actually exist,
'cause
If someone doesn't like you
why would you like them?
If someone doesn't like you
you don't actually like them either
You're just trying to please them 'cause you want to be liked
but you actually don't like them either
so
Focus on
the people you like who like you
the people you like who like you
and that's gonna be a way to live that's not so
Hopeless
What a meandering song this turned out to be
but that's my way
that's how I get my processing done
If you followed along so far,
kudos to you
I hope you got something from these ramblings
I hope you got something from this song
because I'm
Hopeful
No, actually, I'm also hopeless
'cause it doesn't matter if I hope
I intend
I intend and I do
what I do
and I play the wrong notes
and that's not hopeless
that's just what happens when I'm thinking and talking while I play at the same time
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