Chords for The 1975 "Sincerity Is Scary" Official Lyrics & Meaning | Verified
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I think sometimes I struggle with taking like direct compliments on the craft of things because it's not really that thought-out
You just have to learn to like trust your instinct because sometimes just your instinct is kind of what your art is
You know, it's not this really calculated [Em] process
It's harder
to be really sincere because you have to be really human and you have to be really soppy and a bit of [N] a sigh and
You have to be a bit soft.
Do you know what I mean?
And it's easier to be ironic in the face of those situations.
It's easier to like take the piss out of it
Well, I'd be really sardonic.
It's just something that I really really noticed and I kind of wanted to denounce and
Ironies, okay, I suppose
Culture is to blame irony is okay.
Like it's fine.
It's a tried and tested way of not really
Dealing with stuff.
It's harder to be really sincere.
It's harder to be soft and vulnerable in the face of
You know earnestness like serious shit you try and mask your pain in the most postmodern way
well, I suppose the tropes of postmodernism in
pop culture are irony
Self-reference self-awareness within the form so like a character that knows it's a character in a movie
My whole thing is that I know I'm in within a song
I'm a writer within a context that exists outside and within these kind of things those
Acknowledgements within are a very postmodern ideas new like substance when you say something like a what a shame it's just a
Self-referential way that stops you having to be human
I'm assuming your balloon when you remove the dirty spoon and start consuming like a human
That's what I am assuming and I'm sure that you're not just another girl
And I'm sure that you're gonna say that that was sexist
It's like if you're like a bit of a rapey dude or whatever you should be scared about me, too
But I'm not really worried about those kind of things because I'm just not really like that
There's a spoken of fear.
What can I say?
What can be said?
What can I do around women?
But the answer is appropriate things
Like, you know that objectively appropriate things and I feel like you're running out of all the things I liked you for
Why can't we be friends when we are lovers?
Because it always ends with us hating each other instead of calling me out.
You should be putting me in
I've just got one more thing to say it's so easy to
Expel all of your insecurities onto the people that are closest to you
I think it is a reference to a reversion to a more forgiving
Set of social circumstances where an apology is accepted
And why would you believe you could control how you're perceived when at your best you're intermediately versed in your own feelings
Like social media breeds us to be incredibly insecure beings
My self-esteem isn't really wrapped up in social media because my relationship with social media is kind of like this is what I do
Whereas for a lot of people it's unlike young people especially it's like this is who I am
But that's fucking brutal keep on putting off conceiving.
It's only you that you're deceiving.
Oh, don't have a child
Don't cramp your style.
I'll leave it
I'm just pissed off because you pied me off after your show
When you let go of my hand if you're from England
You'll know what pied off means especially because been popularized by the show Love Island to be pied off is to be mugged off
Oh, you don't know what that means
If some like girl is just like I don't know you go in for the kiss or whatever that nah
That's getting that's in that culture is getting pied off in front of some skirt who wanted bit on your
[G] No, I'm just messing
I'm not judging anybody for like being smart and I'm not expecting everybody to just come out and like spill their heart in a
Borderline inappropriate way that I'm learning about how to like better myself
So I couldn't have such an astute observation about myself and then not put it in a record because I think that's just how I operate
You just have to learn to like trust your instinct because sometimes just your instinct is kind of what your art is
You know, it's not this really calculated [Em] process
It's harder
to be really sincere because you have to be really human and you have to be really soppy and a bit of [N] a sigh and
You have to be a bit soft.
Do you know what I mean?
And it's easier to be ironic in the face of those situations.
It's easier to like take the piss out of it
Well, I'd be really sardonic.
It's just something that I really really noticed and I kind of wanted to denounce and
Ironies, okay, I suppose
Culture is to blame irony is okay.
Like it's fine.
It's a tried and tested way of not really
Dealing with stuff.
It's harder to be really sincere.
It's harder to be soft and vulnerable in the face of
You know earnestness like serious shit you try and mask your pain in the most postmodern way
well, I suppose the tropes of postmodernism in
pop culture are irony
Self-reference self-awareness within the form so like a character that knows it's a character in a movie
My whole thing is that I know I'm in within a song
I'm a writer within a context that exists outside and within these kind of things those
Acknowledgements within are a very postmodern ideas new like substance when you say something like a what a shame it's just a
Self-referential way that stops you having to be human
I'm assuming your balloon when you remove the dirty spoon and start consuming like a human
That's what I am assuming and I'm sure that you're not just another girl
And I'm sure that you're gonna say that that was sexist
It's like if you're like a bit of a rapey dude or whatever you should be scared about me, too
But I'm not really worried about those kind of things because I'm just not really like that
There's a spoken of fear.
What can I say?
What can be said?
What can I do around women?
But the answer is appropriate things
Like, you know that objectively appropriate things and I feel like you're running out of all the things I liked you for
Why can't we be friends when we are lovers?
Because it always ends with us hating each other instead of calling me out.
You should be putting me in
I've just got one more thing to say it's so easy to
Expel all of your insecurities onto the people that are closest to you
I think it is a reference to a reversion to a more forgiving
Set of social circumstances where an apology is accepted
And why would you believe you could control how you're perceived when at your best you're intermediately versed in your own feelings
Like social media breeds us to be incredibly insecure beings
My self-esteem isn't really wrapped up in social media because my relationship with social media is kind of like this is what I do
Whereas for a lot of people it's unlike young people especially it's like this is who I am
But that's fucking brutal keep on putting off conceiving.
It's only you that you're deceiving.
Oh, don't have a child
Don't cramp your style.
I'll leave it
I'm just pissed off because you pied me off after your show
When you let go of my hand if you're from England
You'll know what pied off means especially because been popularized by the show Love Island to be pied off is to be mugged off
Oh, you don't know what that means
If some like girl is just like I don't know you go in for the kiss or whatever that nah
That's getting that's in that culture is getting pied off in front of some skirt who wanted bit on your
[G] No, I'm just messing
I'm not judging anybody for like being smart and I'm not expecting everybody to just come out and like spill their heart in a
Borderline inappropriate way that I'm learning about how to like better myself
So I couldn't have such an astute observation about myself and then not put it in a record because I think that's just how I operate
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I think sometimes I struggle with taking like direct compliments on the craft of things because it's not really that thought-out
You just have to learn to like trust your instinct because sometimes just your instinct is kind of what your art is
You know, it's not this really calculated [Em] process _
_ _ _ _ _ It's harder
to be really sincere because you have to be really human and you have to be really soppy and a bit of [N] a sigh and
You have to be a bit soft.
Do you know what I mean?
And it's easier to be ironic in the face of those situations.
It's easier to like take the piss out of it
Well, I'd be really sardonic.
It's just something that I really really noticed and I kind of wanted to denounce and
Ironies, okay, I suppose
Culture is to blame irony is okay.
Like it's fine.
It's a tried and tested way of not really
Dealing with stuff.
It's harder to be really sincere.
It's harder to be soft and vulnerable in the face of
You know earnestness like serious shit you try and mask your pain in the most postmodern way
well, I suppose the tropes of postmodernism in
pop culture are irony
Self-reference self-awareness within the form so like a character that knows it's a character in a movie
My whole thing is that I know I'm in within a song
I'm a writer within a context that exists outside and within these kind of things those
Acknowledgements within are a very postmodern ideas new like substance when you say something like a what a shame it's just a
Self-referential way that stops you having to be human
I'm assuming your balloon when you remove the dirty spoon and start consuming like a human
That's what I am assuming and I'm sure that you're not just another girl
And I'm sure that you're gonna say that that was sexist
It's like if you're like a bit of a rapey dude or whatever you should be scared about me, too
But I'm not really worried about those kind of things because I'm just not really like that
There's a spoken of fear.
What can I say?
What can be said?
What can I do around women?
But the answer is appropriate things
Like, you know that objectively appropriate things and I feel like you're running out of all the things I liked you for
Why can't we be friends when we are lovers?
Because it always ends with us hating each other instead of calling me out.
You should be putting me in
I've just got one more thing to say it's so easy to
Expel all of your insecurities onto the people that are closest to you
I think it is a reference to a reversion to a more forgiving
Set of social circumstances where an apology is accepted
And why would you believe you could control how you're perceived when at your best you're intermediately versed in your own feelings
Like social media breeds us to be incredibly insecure beings
My self-esteem isn't really wrapped up in social media because my relationship with social media is kind of like this is what I do
Whereas for a lot of people it's unlike young people especially it's like this is who I am
But that's fucking brutal keep on putting off conceiving.
It's only you that you're deceiving.
Oh, don't have a child
Don't cramp your style.
I'll leave it
I'm just pissed off because you pied me off after your show
When you let go of my hand if you're from England
You'll know what pied off means especially because been popularized by the show Love Island to be pied off is to be mugged off
Oh, you don't know what that means
If some like girl is just like I don't know you go in for the kiss or whatever that nah
That's getting that's in that culture is getting pied off in front of some skirt who wanted bit on your
[G] No, I'm just messing
I'm not judging anybody for like being smart and I'm not expecting everybody to just come out and like spill their heart in a
Borderline inappropriate way that I'm learning about how to like better myself
So I couldn't have such an astute observation about myself and then not put it in a record because I think that's just how I operate
You just have to learn to like trust your instinct because sometimes just your instinct is kind of what your art is
You know, it's not this really calculated [Em] process _
_ _ _ _ _ It's harder
to be really sincere because you have to be really human and you have to be really soppy and a bit of [N] a sigh and
You have to be a bit soft.
Do you know what I mean?
And it's easier to be ironic in the face of those situations.
It's easier to like take the piss out of it
Well, I'd be really sardonic.
It's just something that I really really noticed and I kind of wanted to denounce and
Ironies, okay, I suppose
Culture is to blame irony is okay.
Like it's fine.
It's a tried and tested way of not really
Dealing with stuff.
It's harder to be really sincere.
It's harder to be soft and vulnerable in the face of
You know earnestness like serious shit you try and mask your pain in the most postmodern way
well, I suppose the tropes of postmodernism in
pop culture are irony
Self-reference self-awareness within the form so like a character that knows it's a character in a movie
My whole thing is that I know I'm in within a song
I'm a writer within a context that exists outside and within these kind of things those
Acknowledgements within are a very postmodern ideas new like substance when you say something like a what a shame it's just a
Self-referential way that stops you having to be human
I'm assuming your balloon when you remove the dirty spoon and start consuming like a human
That's what I am assuming and I'm sure that you're not just another girl
And I'm sure that you're gonna say that that was sexist
It's like if you're like a bit of a rapey dude or whatever you should be scared about me, too
But I'm not really worried about those kind of things because I'm just not really like that
There's a spoken of fear.
What can I say?
What can be said?
What can I do around women?
But the answer is appropriate things
Like, you know that objectively appropriate things and I feel like you're running out of all the things I liked you for
Why can't we be friends when we are lovers?
Because it always ends with us hating each other instead of calling me out.
You should be putting me in
I've just got one more thing to say it's so easy to
Expel all of your insecurities onto the people that are closest to you
I think it is a reference to a reversion to a more forgiving
Set of social circumstances where an apology is accepted
And why would you believe you could control how you're perceived when at your best you're intermediately versed in your own feelings
Like social media breeds us to be incredibly insecure beings
My self-esteem isn't really wrapped up in social media because my relationship with social media is kind of like this is what I do
Whereas for a lot of people it's unlike young people especially it's like this is who I am
But that's fucking brutal keep on putting off conceiving.
It's only you that you're deceiving.
Oh, don't have a child
Don't cramp your style.
I'll leave it
I'm just pissed off because you pied me off after your show
When you let go of my hand if you're from England
You'll know what pied off means especially because been popularized by the show Love Island to be pied off is to be mugged off
Oh, you don't know what that means
If some like girl is just like I don't know you go in for the kiss or whatever that nah
That's getting that's in that culture is getting pied off in front of some skirt who wanted bit on your
[G] No, I'm just messing
I'm not judging anybody for like being smart and I'm not expecting everybody to just come out and like spill their heart in a
Borderline inappropriate way that I'm learning about how to like better myself
So I couldn't have such an astute observation about myself and then not put it in a record because I think that's just how I operate