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Post about Mask of My Own Face by Lemon Demon cause I’m bored
(shtty theory!! Also my view on it, just randomly on a sunday decided to do this 😭)
Huow I see it is someone not feeling comfortable enough about themselves that they need to pretend to be a different person, but everyone associates his face with this personality. ORRR of course it might be masking.
“And I’d dance with all the belles.”
He thinks he’s not good enough to dance with him as his true self.
“None of them would know that I was secretly myself”
They think of “himself” as a different person than he thinks of himself as.
“I’d rob my own apartment and I wouldn’t give a damn.”
He would self-sabotage? I’m not sure about this one.
“I’d blame it on the person nobody knows I am.”
How could they hate someone who ‘doesn’t exist’? Also ties back to self sabotaging?
“I look into my eyeholes, what do I see? A handsome motherf*cker motherf*cking looking right at me.”
Phrased as though it’s a different person. And looking into the eyeholes of the mask; eyes are the gateway to the soul. Saying “handsome” shows it’s not a quality of personality, it’s a physical quality that he thinks will make him a better person. Gods this is a shitty theory I’m sorry 💀
“A mask of my own face, I’d wear that.”
He doesn’t have the same idea of his face as people do of this mask. Or: he wears a mask that isn’t his face, and wants to be himself but is scared of being open.
“I'd wear it on Thanksgiving and I'd laugh in the parade
At all the people hissing, knowing I'm the one they hate.”
“I’m the one they hate”: is he thinking he is that person now? Has he used that persona so much it’s becoming reality?
“And at the big finale I would tear my face away
And smile as they grip their own and try to do the same”
He would tear off his mask, he wouldn’t be that person anymore if nothing mattered. Hypothetical language is used implying that he would do that if he didn’t care.
And everyone else wishes rhey could be themselves but it’s melded into them?? Or they wish it was a persona maybe?
Yeah I’m sorry this was really shitty 💀 open to criticism 😭😭