Theme
Songs about self-knowledge
Interpretations from our editorial team that explore this theme.
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for KING & COUNTRY, Lucas Leach, Beth Easdown, India Brown, Charles Esten & Angel
Who I Hope To Be
A woman learns that opening herself to love means surrendering the self-protective freedom she built after an earlier heartbreak, and decides the trade was worth it
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Tems
What You Need
A breakup song from the side of the person leaving, told as a refusal to be loved through someone else's patience with her own damage
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Cody Webb
Fall All over Again
A man runs into the ex who once chose someone else, knows exactly how the night could end, and is trying to talk himself out of it before he gives in
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Hozier
Too Sweet
A nocturnal cynic gently declines a partner whose wholesome morning-person virtue he respects but can't match