#looove the post that was theorizing that DYWTYLM is directed at the self btw! tbh I do hc that one but this is another idea

[foundationsofdecay]

Thinking about Sleep Token and TMBTE and mirrors and reflections and the loss of a sense of personal identity in general.

"I know what you want from me / you want someone to be / your reflection, your bitter deception, setting you free "

"My reflection just won't smile back at me like I know it should / and I would turn into a stranger in an instant if I could"

"Mirror talk, fake love"

"In reverse, you are all my symmetry / a parallel I would lay my life on"

The idea of being so entangled with one another in the first place that you've become one and the same, reflections of the other after so many years of giving and taking, and you can't even meaningfully separate and finally be set free without breaking you both and leaving pieces behind, but it's suddenly happened and now you must become someone new, for your own sake