People will love you, and then they'll break you
People will burn you, and then they'll save you
This world is full of liars and users
Monsters and bullies, snakes and abusers
Manipulators, hollow machines
Narcissistic duplicity
Whatever road you're on people will let you down
But they're not all the same, changing everyday
And you can't live this life walking down the road alone
You've got to have faith in someone
Lovers adore you, and then they scorn you
Lovers will crush on you, and then they'll crush you
This world is full of liars and users
Monsters and bullies, snakes and abusers
Manipulators, hollow machines
Narcissistic duplicity
Whatever road you're on people will let you down
But they're not all the same, changing everyday
And you can't live this life walking down the road alone
You've got to have faith in someone
And as you're walking down the roads of your life
There are thousands of faces that you'll see
How could they all be just hollow machines?
They can't all be as bad as the worst that you've seen
Whatever road you're on people will let you down
But they're not all the same, changing everyday
And you can't live this life walking down the road alone
You've got to have faith in someone
Cynical was our first original song. We wrote it in January of 2020. Although I had written quite a lot of poetry since childhood, I had little experience with putting the words to melodies.
The theme of this song was meant to relate to those so burned by past experiences with other people that they find it nearly impossible to trust. The first video of this song we made for Facebook and YouTube had a tagline referencing ACONs (Adult Children of Narcissists) and domestic violence victims, specifically. But the song is universal to anyone victimized and/or traumatized in some way by relationships to others.
The message is meant to portray the idea that by isolating and distrusting everyone, you actually punish yourself by walking through life alone. And that, no matter how hard it may be, it is nearly vital that we try to find someone we can connect with again, that the odds of everyone you meet being as bad as your abusers is unlikely, and that even some people who used to be toxic can, in time, grow and change, and become someone we can trust once more.