In "False Gods," Annicke Shireen traces the bitter cost of outgrowing a relationship built on self-erasure. Youth’s sharp edges have worn down, and leaving means accepting that rage can be the only fuel while change still begins within. The false gods become the old values and validation she once worshipped, now abandoned, yet her former partner still clings to them. Refusing that hollow faith, she turns from the endless night, choosing her own hard-won clarity over a love that demanded she shrink.
False Gods Lyrics by Annicke Shireen
Remember me, my blood-born rite
When the shape of youth had teeth to bite
Now pain has sanded down our steel
As we tell ourselves It’s privilege to feel
We are learning how to walk away
Finding truth and wisdom all in age
Life got a million times more real
As I tell myself it’s a privilege to feel
And some days rage is all I have
They say change starts with the self
I tear my eyes from the endless night
Oh baby
Better keep your false gods out of my sight
We are learning how to walk away
Finding truth and wisdom all in age
Life got a million times more real
As I tell myself it’s a privilege to feel
Its strange, how we try to save face
Nothing rests as everything vibrates
Decreased my value so you could shine
But you are
Still praying to the false gods I left behind
And some days rage is all I have
They say change starts with the self
I tear my eyes from the endless night
Oh baby
Better keep your false gods out of my sight