[Intro]
Mhmm, uh, listen
[Verse 1: Unknown T]
The streets always brackin’, I can never show weakness
Fresh off the M charge, rah, I beat it
Always kept a straight face, I never showed ’em …
[Intro: Dave East]
[?] your eyes
Hoffa
Morning comes I’ll be gone [?]
Swervo
La Musica de Harry Fraud
Pablo
[Verse 1: Dave East]
Niggas don’t want me to go off (Go off)
Yola on us, got the blow …
[Chorus: The Game & Jay Rock]
Blood money or die, Blood money or die
I put my life on the line, I put my life on the line
For the love of the …
I bounce to the beat of my own drum
I’m a wow in a world full of ho-hum
I’m a wild young lady, but you know ‘sum?
I’d rather be at home with …
[Intro]
Ghosty
Mhmm, listen
[Chorus: Unknown T]
Man down, man down, now we gotta get equal
Put a foot on it fast, Vin Diesel
Grrr, grab the machine, bro
Run on the grass, let’s boot some people
If …
This is a song about somebody else
So don’t worry yourself, worry yourself1
The devil’s right there right there in the details2
And you don’t wanna hurt yourself, hurt yourself3
Looking too closely
Looking too closely
No no no no!4
Put your arms around somebody else5
Don’t punish yourself, punish yourself6
Truth is like blood underneath your fingernails7
And you don’t wanna hurt yourself, hurt yourself
Looking too closely
Looking too closely
No no no no!
No no no no!
You don’t wanna hurt yourself, hurt yourself
You don’t wanna hurt yourself, hurt yourself
No no no no!
I could be wrong ’bout anybody else
So don’t kid yourself, kid yourself
It’s you right there, right there in the mirror8
And you don’t wanna hurt yourself, hurt yourself
Looking too closely
Looking too closely
Yeaaah
Looking too closely
You don’t wanna hurt yourself
You don’t wanna hurt yourself, hurt yourself
Looking too close
Fink sings about somebody living in denial, especially someone who has a cheating lover.
If this person wanted, he or she could easily discover whether the partner is cheating.
However, he or she refuses to discover whether the partner is cheating in an effort to maintain surface-level happiness and avoid being traumatized.
Fink explores the mentality of those whose partner is cheating: don’t examine the details too closely or you might get hurt.
In other words, take refuge in another person.
Don’t blame yourself if your partner is having an affair.
Discovering the truth is painful. Being in denial at least maintains some level of satisfaction.
Again, the message Fink sends in this song is that the mentality of those who are in denial about a cheating partner is to maintain surface-level happiness and avoid the truth.
2 user explanations and meanings
Anonymous
We dont want to get too close to what can be hurtful. The devil is looking at the details and we dont wanna hurt ourselves. We just dont wanna look to close at the potential things but to look closer at life and more eternal things.
Anonymous
Don’t stare at yourself in the mirror and decide you are defective, or engage in thinking about your every detail and imperfection instead of yourself as a whole person. “Put your arms around someone else” so you are thinking of them, being with them, and not looking inward. (Other-centered instead of self-centered.) You can experience someone and be reassured it’s probably the the way people experience you – without a magnifying glass seeking faults.