From the recording Background Noise EP
Track 3 of 4 from the Background Noise EP, each of which deals with an aspect of toxic relationships. This song imagines what the victim in one of these relationships might want to say to their abuser but probably shouldn't because the evidence shows that abusive people won't accept what they are and will often react badly, even violently, to such criticism.
Lyrics
You will never realise
How empty you are inside
None of that was real
Shards of your imagination
What's it like not to feel?
Hunting your infatuation
What's it like not to feel?
Behind the mask that you prize
Fragile ego your only guide
You will never realise
How empty you are inside
You will never realise
How empty you are inside
Search out your next deal
Frame a new situation
Train that dog to come to heel
Shower you with adoration
Train that dog …
Behind the mask that you prize
Fragile ego your only guide
You will never realise
How empty you are inside
You will never realise
How empty you are inside
Seduce them with your charm
Disdain and discard to disarm
Rinse and repeat after soothing with balm
Behind the mask that you prize
Fragile ego your only guide
You will never realise
How empty you are inside
You will never realise
How empty you are inside
You will never realise…
You will never realise
How empty you are…
How empty you are inside