Okay, so we all know the lyrics are wrong. But I want to talk about it in terms of a fanfic I've been reading.
There's actually two I've read, "An Exquisite Pain" and "Dancing With Time". In the first one, an ordinary (for her world) fifteen-year-old girl accidentally ends up in the past and the device that took her back is broken (time-travel does happen in her world). She ends up as a transfer student at her boarding school, which still exists, and even becomes a Prefect, due to the uniform being totally the same and her prefect badge being on. But she also ends up working with the other prefect in her year, a boy whose name she recognizes, but she's not sure where from. At first, he annoys her because all the teachers seem to love her, and one of her new friends swoons over his good looks, and although he hangs out with people, he seems strangely detached from everyone, including this girl. However, as they get to know each other, she becomes suspicious of him, becomes interested, and wants to break him down. Her love of learning seems to translate to wanting to figure him out, and that leads to her wanting to get closer to him. Then, she discovers that he's afflicted with a serious illness that affects him both physically and mentally, and during one of his episodes, he lets slip the person he plans to be, and the girl remembers that in her time, he died when she was tiny, but is known as one of the most dangerous, most powerful warmongerers of all time. And yet she's already starting to fall for the fifteen-year-old version of him.
So why does this song suit this story? Because our male lead seems to always be masking, never showing his true self, and is almost heartless because he was never shown love himself. His mother died giving birth to him and his father didn't want him or his mother. The protagonist is a learner, "usually the queen of figuring out" and no matter what she says, she never seems to get any further because he won't show any emotion. When he finally does, it's because he's taken a medicine that lowers his inhibitions, and even then, he only says "I care about you more than I could have ever imagined caring about anyone", which is still not love. Our poor girl feels like she "keeps knocking on wood, hoping there's a real boy inside", and while he stays with her, there's very few moments when he actually shows any vulnerability to her, and sometimes he's just manipulating her. He also never says "I love you", no matter how many times she says it, and she knows that she can't "put him back together again", and is "such a fool" for falling for him. He also seems to always doubt her love is unconditional, too, and she often wants him to "feel that my love is real".
Okay, so we all know the lyrics are wrong. But I want to talk about it in terms of a fanfic I've been reading.
There's actually two I've read, "An Exquisite Pain" and "Dancing With Time". In the first one, an ordinary (for her world) fifteen-year-old girl accidentally ends up in the past and the device that took her back is broken (time-travel does happen in her world). She ends up as a transfer student at her boarding school, which still exists, and even becomes a Prefect, due to the uniform being totally the same and her prefect badge being on. But she also ends up working with the other prefect in her year, a boy whose name she recognizes, but she's not sure where from. At first, he annoys her because all the teachers seem to love her, and one of her new friends swoons over his good looks, and although he hangs out with people, he seems strangely detached from everyone, including this girl. However, as they get to know each other, she becomes suspicious of him, becomes interested, and wants to break him down. Her love of learning seems to translate to wanting to figure him out, and that leads to her wanting to get closer to him. Then, she discovers that he's afflicted with a serious illness that affects him both physically and mentally, and during one of his episodes, he lets slip the person he plans to be, and the girl remembers that in her time, he died when she was tiny, but is known as one of the most dangerous, most powerful warmongerers of all time. And yet she's already starting to fall for the fifteen-year-old version of him.
So why does this song suit this story? Because our male lead seems to always be masking, never showing his true self, and is almost heartless because he was never shown love himself. His mother died giving birth to him and his father didn't want him or his mother. The protagonist is a learner, "usually the queen of figuring out" and no matter what she says, she never seems to get any further because he won't show any emotion. When he finally does, it's because he's taken a medicine that lowers his inhibitions, and even then, he only says "I care about you more than I could have ever imagined caring about anyone", which is still not love. Our poor girl feels like she "keeps knocking on wood, hoping there's a real boy inside", and while he stays with her, there's very few moments when he actually shows any vulnerability to her, and sometimes he's just manipulating her. He also never says "I love you", no matter how many times she says it, and she knows that she can't "put him back together again", and is "such a fool" for falling for him. He also seems to always doubt her love is unconditional, too, and she often wants him to "feel that my love is real".