![]() ![]() ![]() What is he sorry for? For being an anxious, insecure fuck up, I think. I think he even feels like he isn't a fully functioning human, the spilled drink making him "melt like a witch and scream", just like holy water would burn a vampire. He wants her to tell him he'll be fine, because he's been trying to convince himself of the same thing and it isn't working. He says "I've had a stilted, pretending day". He lets his lover know how he's really feeling though. Ooh, the voice that was heard makes me alive again, so fine. Without a single light, a sign that lifts me up again. The world that has grown in the time of wandering. Fake it if you have to ("put on a smile") but don't let anybody know how insecure you feel inside. Above this terrifying world, felt so lonely. #HOW TO BE BRAVE LYRICS HOW TO#He's saying, look I know you "don't know how to do this" but suck it up, and be a nice person, and you'll get by okay. God, that's beautiful/melancholy/pitiful. "Take a forty-five minute shower and kiss the mirror The character in this song (maybe Berninger himself, in his younger days?) yearns to be given reassurance that he's doing a good job at work ("Son, I've been hearing good things") but when that isn't forthcoming, tries to give himself a pep talk instead: This song is probably the best example, although Mistaken For Strangers touches on it as well. General CommentMatt Berninger writes a lot of lyrics about the awkward transition into adulthood characters stumbling and faking their way through their fledgling careers and lives, pretending to be capable and confident but feeling desperately insecure inside. ![]() I pull off your jeans, and you spill Jack and Coke in my collar Just say something perfect, something I can stealĪll we've gotta do is be brave and be kind I put on an argyle sweater and put on a smile Take a forty-five minute shower and kiss the mirror I wake up without warning and go flying around the house ![]()
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