Penelope Scott: Feel Better Meaning
Feel Better Lyrics
No one's ever gonna love me like that again
I don't wanna get over you
I wanna sit with you in bed
I don't wanna feel better
I'd give anything to miss you again
I don't wanna get over it
I wanna get under it...
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#1 top rated interpretation:I think the song is about a person who had been manipulated and supposedly “loved” this person that made them feel special. The calm tone of voice in the song represents why this person feel special. They have no idea who they are, they are merely emotionless, and they are past the stage of being able to fully heal. So, instead of feeling like trash out of regrets, they listen to this person/people that use them for this talent that makes them feel good. So much in fact, it clogs up their emotions. “I had my cake, I ate it, it ate me too” Their power is the only thing that defines them. They’re not powerful, they are power. They are merely a husk walking around doing what they feel is right. Not in their eyes, but their manipulators. They send their (assuming short) lives never having a choice. When the part comes, “I had a right to die, a right to live, and a right to choose too,” means that they had every right to not die glued to their talent/blessing, they had everything to not just live under the light of life, but experience its warmth as well. And especially every right to not only make choices for themselves, but just have opinions, a personality. And after that line, the speaker starts to whimper and chuckle every now and then, showing that their shell is cracking. They think they love themselves. They think they love something that doesn’t even exist. As the song concludes, their inner child eventually gives up is ready to pass on without them. Hence all the “I guess I really loved you” despite being emotionless. They dreaded being their younger selves, but now when their rein of glory and entitlement had come to an end, they envied their younger selves, probably the first emotion they ever felt. They no longer have a soul, just their body. As it says, “But now you’re way over there, and I’m way over here, what am I gonna do?” In summary, it was a huge waste of years and youth. Such a beautiful life put to waste because even though it seemed like they were blessed by life, they were actually on the same level as everybody around them. So, they are the same as always, no friends and no heart. Only this time, they can feel it.
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#2 top rated interpretation:I interpret this song as a person who ended a toxic relationship. The lyrics "No one's ever gonna love me like that again" really show that. When you're in a relationship like that the other person manipulates you into feeling like you're really loved. "I'd give anything to miss you again" when you just leave a relationship like that you genuinely miss the other person because even tho they were terrible they at one point made you feel something. I really relate to this song but every interpretation is valid :)
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#3 top rated interpretation:The writer of the song was obsessively pursued by someone she didn't know very well and the pursuit was consummated in a very hot sexual way that won over the writer completely so that she also intensely fell in love with the pursuer. The writer may have been a virgin, or near virgin at the time. Definitely the first intense love she had ever experienced. It was very intense and great for awhile, but pretty soon serious problems in the relationship became obvious, leading to a break-up initiated by the pursuer. The writer was extremely upset about the loss and thought about suicide and became very confused. But she still craved that intensity of feeling loved and loving the person who had loved her although she knew the odds were way against it ever really working out. She continues to crave that high of feeling loved by someone that she loved intensely back.
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she misses it, it's of nostalgia and regret for not savouring he moments whilst it lasted she knows she's never gunna get anything that felt as good as that and she's upset. She can't move on it lingers in the back of her mind
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My interpretation is that the girl was going through a lot of struggles but she was going through them with someone else and the fact she had someone meant that even though she was going through all these struggles it was ok because someone loved her but something happened causing them to become distant, which she probably blames herself for ("just really fucking selfish") and now she feels completely lost ("and really fucking lost") and just wants what she had before again. "Of course it hurt of course it fucking hurt it hurt like nothing in the world sometimes and I was super scared, and we were all a train wreck and somehow making it." Even though she was scared and she went through difficult experiences she was going through it with someone else and so even though it hurt sometimes, she was ok, but she doesn't have that anymore and she doesn't believe she could have that again and all she wants is that person back. (I might've been self projecting a bit here tbh).
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My interpretation is very much persuaded by my own experiences so take this with a grain of salt because I'm definitely projecting.
I feel that this song is talking about the narrator being broken up with and feeling the aftermath of a toxic relationship. I feel that the toxic ex was very manipulative in the way of making the narrator borderline obsessive with them to the point where they lose themself in pursuit of getting the toxic ex's love and attention.
After getting out of the relationship, the narrator has no idea who they are anymore and put up different fronts in a way to cope. They're an emotional wreck and detached from their emotions at the same time making them apathetic towards others' problems as they try to navigate their own mess. Even though they're feeling so lost, they feel selfish for wanting it back as if it was all their fault their toxic ex left them and they don't deserve their ex because they weren't good enough. They beat themself up over ruining what they felt was a perfectly good relationship and base their worth on the validation they got from their ex because of that forced emotional codependency.
Next, the narrator starts to make excuses for the obvious red flags in their relationship saying things like how it was "in a hot way" to validate that perfect couple image, pushing them further in denial that they were used and manipulated. It then touches on the sexual part of their relationship where the narrator is so deprived and starving for any sort of love that they'd give themself up just to feel desired, even if the act itself was uncomfortable for them. They then go and say that they'd "give my life to have a room that feels that small," really driving home that they'd put themself through that traumatic experience again just to feel loved one more time.
The narrator goes on to say
that they "earned something" as to say that they gave so much to get that love. They also say that they "have a right to die, a right to live, a right to choose, too" bringing back that mindset that it's all their fault and the denial that they were manipulated. They say that all of the choices up to this point had to have been made by themself and themself only because in their mind, there's no way that this person they loved so much could be a terrible person.
The narrator at this point is starting to crack and is acknowledging that they were hurt in that relationship to the point where it made them scared. They acknowledge that even though they both found a shabby way to get by in their relationship, they were still a "train-wreck." Although, even with this acknowledgement, the yearning to have it all back was never sated. The narrator goes back to how they don't know who they are anymore which emphasizes the contrast to their final breaking point they reach when they're alone and the most vulnerable to their own thoughts (laying down in their bed and getting ready to sleep). The narrator finally realizes just how much damage their ex had done to them.
Lastly, the narrator finally accepts the reality that the person they loved so much and thought of so highly was actually someone they "barely knew," but even after all of that, they still can't bring themself to let go and move on. Even the realization of how awful their ex is wasn't enough to undo all of the damage and codependency that the ex had created. The narrator is now left to wonder "what am I gonna do" as they now have to deal with the weight of their reality. They feel so lost and hopeless without their ex taking up their whole life that they no longer know how to live a life outside of them. -
IDK IF IT JUST ME BUT I feel like the song is abt falling inlove with someone who want to makes you feel better and like they just like the only person that makes them feel that way and it feel so much better yet bcs of how comfort you already be in your depression and you feel like you need to push them away bcs you cant move on and as you push them away you feel of how selfish you are for push them away just bcs you dont want to feel better, bcs you already feel comfortable in your yea
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This song reminds me of one of my friends, when she got her Girlfriend she forgot about all of us(her friends) she just talk about that freaking girl and dont care about anything else Besides that they have some problems But anyway. and i hate her so much bc of that(i was her best friend).
"Or im just really fuckin' selfish and really fuckin'lost but someone love me someone fuckin love me and i love them too"
Yeah she really look like that
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I think the song is about a old friendship
There's a part in the song that goes: "I was really fucking selfish and really fucking lost it but someone loved me, someone fucking loved me and I fucking loved them too"
I guess the part that goes: "I had my cake" maybe she was saying that her old friend died or found a better friend -
I interpret that "Feel Better" By Penelope Scott is a song about getting over a love life that she lost. When she says "I don't want to feel better, No one's ever going to love me like that again.I don't want to get over you, I want to sit with you in bed." She is saying that She misses her partner and doesn't want to let them go yet. Many people take this as getting out of a toxic relationship but if you listen to the lyrics, she is talking about the times they had together and missing them.
"someone loved me, someone f*cking loved me, someone f*cking loved me and I f*cking loved them too" is meaning that she was in a relationship that she felt loved and she loved them also. She is not wanting to let go of the memories they made. -
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I think the song is about someone leaving Penelope Scott (for example). And this is her explaining that she loved the way her someone treated her and she doesn't want to forget the way she felt about it ("I don't wanna get over it, I wanna get under it instead"). Although, I have literally no idea - this is just a thought of mine!! :))
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I think the song is about a person who had been manipulated and supposedly “loved” this person that made them feel special. The calm tone of voice in the song repersents
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my interpretation is that it's about falling for someone and them caring for you. But then taking it for granted and breaking things off and eventually regretting doing so. (Idk im basically going off of my past situations which made me love the song)
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I think the song is about the girl being in a very overwhelming and fast pace relationship which she relied on to feel happy, but when they broke up she craves the attention from her ex and would do anything to be loved or feel that rush of happiness again.
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I think this song is about someone she recently met is in love with her, and so is she. But what I understood from the lyrics "Now you're over there, and I'm way over here" is that he died, probably before she could even confess
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I think this song is about her getting groomed online. They manipulated her into thinking that no one could love her like they did, and when she realized what they did and reported them, she went into a mental spiral.
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i feel like its like she got out of a relationship with someone who she thought was the one but in the end its like she was ready for the relationship but mabye the other person was not mentally there so they broke with her
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