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Nostalgia in My Bedroom

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Every night you sacrifice your soul
Just to keep the ones you love most close
Nothing ever comes back from it
Don't you wonder why nobody else can see it
Everybody says breathe, but the deeper I breathe
The more bugs fly down my throat
Probably got a little nest down in my stomach
And they're turning into butterflies

Everybody scares me but you
Nobody scares me but you
You're pretty scary or maybe I'm just a pansy
That's pretty likely but I really really miss
Yeah I really really miss you

My friend gave me a piece of honeycomb steel
And I kept it in my bedroom for three whole years
But my mum cleaned my room and she threw it away
Little things that remind me of better days
They make me smile for a while then it goes away
Nostalgia in my Bedroom

Everybody scares me but you
Nobody scares me but you
You're pretty scary or maybe I'm just a pansy
That's pretty likely but I really really miss
Yeah I really really miss you

Yeah I really really miss
Yeah I really really miss you

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by giuwi

5y ago

I think it's about a relationship that ended years ago and kind of "traumatized" the speaker.They are afraid of letting people go, that's why they "sacrifice their soul" doing everything others want just to please and maintain them close. Even though they do this effort and have people they love close to them, they miss their ex-friend/ex-boyfriend/ex-girlfriend a lot. Looking back is frightining and pleasureble at the same time: "everybody scares me but you/ nobody scares me but you". The memory of the "better days" is sweet but also hurtful because it will never come back.

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