Self‐Aware Songtext
von Riverside

I told myself I don′t need it
Scrolling, watching, reading
I told myself I don't need it
To know what kind of world we live in

I shut myself off from
The whole broken world
I told myself I don′t need it
That this is not any of my concern

But the truth is that I cannot live without you
And I should do something, cannot just stand and watch

Oh oh, oh oh oh
Oh oh, oh oh oh

I told myself I don't need it
And I can numb this feeling
And I can hole up deep in the woods
Far from everyone


And then I realized
I'd lived in self-denial
And didn′t even try
To understand, to recognize

Just wanna be close to you
I wanna feel you close to me
I wanna be close to you

I′m sick and tired
Of our fighting
On a minefield of the social distance warnings
The future is in our hands, but first let's
Unsubscribe the ones who make us hostile
Unsubscribe the ones who make us hostile
Unsubscribe the ones who make us hostile

I wanna feel you close to me
′Cause I still believe I will find the answer
But I already know I need you for
The feeling of being complete for the first time

But the truth is that I cannot live without you
And I should do something, cannot just stand and watch

Oh oh, oh oh oh
Oh oh, oh oh oh


I told myself I don't need it
Scrolling, watching, reading
I told myself I don′t need it
To know what kind of world we live in

And then I realized
I'd lived in self-denial
And didn′t even try
To understand, to recognize

Just wanna be close to you
I wanna feel you close to me
I wanna be close to you
Being complete for the first time