Theme
Songs about self-deception
Interpretations from our editorial team that explore this theme.
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Brooks & Dunn
Neon Moon
A man drinks alone in a back-corner honky-tonk booth, using the buzz of a neon sign as the only light steady enough to sit with his heartbreak under
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Glass Animals
Heat Waves
A song about loving someone you can no longer help, where summer mirages stand in for the lies the mind tells itself about a dying relationship
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Kanye West
Heartless
A breakup post-mortem sung through Auto-Tune, where accusation and self-incrimination keep swapping seats until both sides look colder than they meant to be
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BIG Naughty
Vancouver
A songwriter discovers, six years on, that he never actually moved past the person who moved to Vancouver, and that everything he writes is still a letter to her