Forget

Fashion Club's song 'Forget' delves into the complex emotions surrounding love, memory, and forgiveness. The lyrics explore the difficulty of maintaining love when physical and emotional presence fades, as seen in the lines 'I forget / How to love you / When I can’t feel your weight.' This suggests a sense of disconnection and the struggle to hold onto feelings that once seemed so strong. The imagery of pushing 'the color from my face' evokes a sense of numbness and loss of vitality, further emphasizing the emotional toll of this disconnection.

The song also touches on the theme of self-reflection and the fear of becoming what one despises. The lines 'But if I let / Myself hate you / I only imitate / The faults I thought I had erased' highlight the internal conflict of harboring negative emotions and the realization that doing so only perpetuates a cycle of negativity. This introspection is juxtaposed with moments of clarity, where the narrator almost finds 'a reason to be kind' when memories are wiped clean, suggesting that forgetting past grievances can lead to a more compassionate outlook.

Regret and honesty are also central themes in 'Forget.' The narrator grapples with the idea of regret, questioning its authenticity with 'I regret / Close to nothing / Isn’t that what liars say / When they’re trying to save face.' This skepticism towards regret is contrasted with the fragility of a fabricated life, as 'The life I’ve fabricated / Feels too brittle not to break.' The song concludes with a poignant reflection on change and its impact, pondering whether change truly alters anything or if it merely serves as a distraction from deeper issues. The final lines, 'Apprehension could send me to my knees / Still I’d throw open like the gates / I wouldn’t have to feel a thing,' encapsulate the desire to avoid pain and the lengths one might go to achieve emotional numbness.