A Letter From Janelle lyrics

Hey janelle monae i am your bigst fan i want to be you when i grow up if you want to till me something this is my numder {585}3015382 just ask for zoey murray

Peer pressure went too far,
following people instead of going by your own mind; in relationships or friendships

I agree with what blue and yellow pasted, but i think the paradox isn't about waiting to be hurt, i feel it's more likely to be craig saying love itself is a paradox. In other words, craig believes that you can never truly love someone, as you will always be trying to be what they want you to be, thus meaning you aren't yourself, and therefore you can never be loved for who you truly are. In the very least the love in this song was paradoxical, that's not to claim that all love is a paradox.

This song is really lovely and i like the beat to it... It's really nice :d

This song is about how craigs or however you spell its girlfriend cheated on him with another lead singer of a different band who's not as like "big time" as they are...

Now the guy she cheated on him with brags about it constantly... Because he thinks its hilarious.

The acoustic version of this song is way better than the regular version.

So i think craig's/whomever's story this song is based upon is this:

He was in love with a girl, basically. But he felt as though he wasn't being himself, although he loved her all the same. Maybe he felt at some point that something wasn't right. Then he suddenly realizes that the small assumption that something was wrong proved to be quite true when she abruptly broke his heart, by lying to him/cheating on him.

So that sent him into a spiral of depression (possibly); he was broken because he'd loved her, or at least thought he did. Then he realized that he had to move on and be his own person ("so remember who you really are. ") he realized that it was easy to pretend to be someone else, to put on a mask, because you want to please someone. He tried that, and the girl didn't love him. Maybe if he had been himself, she would have seen everything he had to offer and loved him in return.

He doesn't feel comfortable admitting all this, though. That's why after she "rejects" him (for lack of a better word), he pretty much stops talking to her at all. He doesn't know what to say. He "hesitates to surrender all of [his] insecurities. "

"such a paradox"? He felt that something like this was going to happen, but tried to push it out of his mind. And he was the one who got hurt because he didn't act on that feeling. He waited for her to hurt him, in a sense.

I don't know, that's just what i feel it means, because i can relate to it. I am a lot like the girl i described. But i didn't "reject" anyone, some people overreacted. ^(haha, sorry about that. )

Wow, you basically summed up my relationship with my ex girlfriend.. How the fuck can someone tell you they love you, after never acting like it? So i broke up with her, not to mention the small things which made the relationship even more difficult, and the fact she didn't try to make conversation much.

When you do so much for a girl, and in the end, she's hardly trying to make things better for your end, even if all you want is a way to get through the most difficult bullshit of life, and she pushes you away, because she can't stand talking to frustrated people.. It's ignorance.. I can't love someone who is ignorant towards me.. Especially after everything.

-he was with a girl and it was beautiful, things were so perfect it was as glorious as the sun shining so much it seemed it was them that causes it to (that’s the metaphor)

-the girl makes a fool of him (duh) i believe this is because he loved her so much he put all his trust in her and let himself go weak to the public eye. Other instances i can see of this going outside just the lyrics are like when a relationship seems one sided like to say he cared so much about her he bared all and she resisted.. I am not too sure if this relates exactly to this song but i personally relate in this manor

-the line so remember who you are, i see this as remember the being she bared herself as and be that being not who she now is (the person she became after she "made a fool out of him")

- yet we hesitate to surrender all of out insecurities, only the ones were most comfortable relinquishing, basically saying we bare ourselves to those were most comfortable (i.e. Love) but there’s always a point when the breakup happens and all of those words are now like bullets you use against each other

-such a paradox isn’t it, this of course relates to the above its basically (i believe) saying "cover yourself up don’t be trusting around those you love" that is the paradox but looking deeper its because; it can all be used against you in a fight or break up, which makes it a paradox because it is only looking deeper that it does not sound redundant.

- through out the song he repeats move with me move with me i don’t fully understand this yet but its possible if he's speaking mentally or metaphorically like let yourself go be you don’t rationalize be like me move, flow

So over all i feel this song is about bearing all the beauty of it and the consequence a lot of this is opinion and what it means to me, i don’t know what it means to the author but art is art there is no right answer.