The Fear Lyrics

Lyric discussion by Imgonnamakeit 

Cover art for The Fear lyrics by Ben Howard

Howard highlights the fact when we discover how small and insignifant we actually are that we become cold and apathetic. This can makes us feel as if we have no real purpose and we give up. We then shelter ourselves in our fears like herd animals living in a crowd with our sole purpose to avoid risk until we eventually die, one by one.

Howard challenges this infectious thought by reminding us that we "become what we deserve". Here he calls out to challenge us to step out and take some risk in life. . . Despite our fears. If we die a purposeless empty life its because we deserve it. With "that" as our possible ends, we really have much less to lose than we think. He bekons us to go beyond the herd-think, or to simply stay cold and apathetic.

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