Don't get me wrong
If I'm looking kind of dazzled
I see neon lights
Whenever you walk by
It's playing havoc with the tide
If you say hello and I take a ride
Upon a sea where the mystic moon
Is playing havoc with the tide
Don't get me wrong
Are we so easily dazzled these days? Most of the time we stand on two opposite ends of the spectrum - you're either so super excited about something (or someone) or you have no reaction whatsoever (nothing, nada, zip. like some deadpan poker face nobody can crack). Why do we play it cool sometimes? Are we afraid that we let people see how much more they affect us than they want us to know? I remember those types of feelings, and have felt so overwhelmed that I didn't know what to do with it, didn't know how to deal with it. When the expectations were then thrust back in my direction, I would get nothing in return, no reciprocity, and just complete silence. Is this what it means for the tide to play havoc with us? If we aren't too careful, we might allow ourselves to be swept away.
Don't get me wrong
If I'm acting so distracted
I'm thinking about the fireworks
That go off when you smile
Don't get me wrong
If I split like light refracted
I'm only off to wander
Across a moonlit mile
People hate it when you get distracted. They demand your full attention and then don't know what to do with it when they have it (oh the irony!). Maybe your life is so complicated that you don't really need any distractions anyway. It doesn't make a damn bit of difference if there is any sort of attraction there, because you can't possibly entertain it. The safest route might be to lose yourself in some daydream. I mean, being lost in your own thoughts is surely safer than revealing anything and just being ignored. This constant push and pull that happens, why the need to be so contrary all the time - to be complete opposites? You are better off wandering on some moonlit mile. At least you'd have some light to guide your path, even if it is in the dark.
Two people meet
Seemlngly for no reason
They pass on the street
Suddenly, thunder showers everywhere
Who can explain the thunder and rain
But there's something in the air
There will be a few times in your life where you will meet people, individuals who cross your path and you can't explain the chemical elements in the air when you are together. You might find yourself thinking that there is no logical explanation that can be offered that would be acceptable for anyone to hear, and that is mostly becaduse, society teaches you to accept the so-called norm, to conform, rather than transform. How are you with thunder and showers? Most people would probably run indoors and try to find some shelter to get away from it all. Others might stand in the rain or run through it and carefully try to avoid the thunder that strikes. They say thunder never strikes in the same place twice. But how do you explain when thunder strikes everytime you are with someone? Does it have to make sense? It defies logic and that's a good thing. Some things are not meant to be understood - just felt.
Don't get me wrong
If I come and go like fashion
I might be great tomorrow
But hopeless yesterday
Don't get me wrong
If I fall in the mode of fashion
It might be unbelievable
But let's not say so long
It might just be fantastic
Don't get me wrong
We no longer deal in absolutes anymore. We don't need to try and be people we are not. It is hard to trust people and be your true selves. People from your past may think they know you, but they only remember a snapshot of who you were back then. They haven't come to know the "you" that exists today - the one who has had to hold it altogether while everyone else is allowed to fall apart. Do you come and go like fashion? How do you know that you're even on trend? If you don't care about how others think about what you wear - you're already in the mode of fashion, because you are bold and strut your stuff even when nobody is looking. I hope that those niggling fears in your mind start to disappear. I hope that when you look in the mirror, you smile a little to yourself and just remember that you can start asserting yourself to others and reminding them about who you really are. Because nobody likes someone who thinks they know you. Just don't get me wrong. . .