Spotlight

Alex: These are the lyrics I spent the most time on. This can be read as singular but really it is about how all women are born into the world and have to deal with these weird expectations of what it means to be a woman. That’s why I used the weight of “their” expectations right off the bat. I imagine it must be tough if you have desires and dreams but are constantly told to fit into the prescribed box by “the spotlight”. If you watch the lyric video, the field is her safe place, which once she disappears from the spotlight (shunning what society thinks she should be), and becomes her true self, she returns to the field and lets someone else in with her.

 

The weight of their expectations

Crushing dreams you can't sustain

What you cherish gets forgotten

Left to wither in the rain

 

Behind that wall you've built up

Lies a truth they'll never find

I can see through all the shadows

That have left the others blind

 

Their spotlight burns too harshly

Missing everything that's real

I'm the only one who notices

The wounds that never heal

 

You keep running back to daylight

Where they think they know your heart

But you always find your way here

When their world falls apart

 

That guarded look you carry

Makes them think they know your game

They believe you're hard to crack

But they never try to look deeper

 

Their spotlight burns too harshly

Missing everything that's real

I'm the only one who notices

The wounds that never heal

 

They can't see past the surface

Hold you up against the glare

I notice what escapes their eyes

While they watch you disappear...

Disappear