#grabs you

LISTEN IT FEELS LIKE IT FITS JUST LOOK

(Also just a reminder that this is not the whole song I cut out a lot of repeating chorus’)

“You dropped into my life

When I needed you most

That should've been the first red flag”

Bruce adopting him after he lost his parents

“You smiled at me like a parasite in need of a host

Slipped a contract out of your bag

And when I frowned at the empty quill

You jabbed me with a dull syringe”

Parasite as in Bruce saw kinship in this angry little boy and instead of ohhhh idk therapy and support systems encouraged him to become a vigilante like himself (i love Batman don’t get me wrong but cmon man.)

“I don’t like to be pressured

I don’t like to be pushed”

This is the general chorus but I feel like it works

“It was an ominous start

But you said the money came from your heart

And you only wanted the very best for me

You wanted me to succeed

But in your own particular sense

At a particularly painful expense”

SHAKES YOU SHAKES YOU SHAKES YOU BITES THE BARS OF MY ENCLOSURE DO YOU SEE THE VISION IT JUST WORKS IS THIS NOT THE MOST BATMAN PHRASING EVER

“The independence of my body and my mind

From the particulars of all your extracurriculars

The fog of obligation grew so thick I couldn't even breathe”

AKXJAKZOAPAP SHAKES YOU SHAKES YOU SHAKES YOU DO YOU SEE IT DO YOU SEE THE VISION “your extracurriculars” REFERRING TO BRUCES VIGILANTISM AND DICK BECOMING ROBIN AND THE OBLIGATION OF BEING ROBIN BECOMING TO MUCH PRESSURE DO YOU SEE

“I don't like to be pressured

I don't like to be pushed”

I see this working as the transition from Robin to Nightwing

“Another twist of the knife

Another turn of the screw

Another perfect time to thank myself

For drumming up the courage to burn bridges with you”

GESTURES WILDLY DO YOU SEE DO YOU LIKE THIS WOULD BE THE TENSION BUILDING BEFORE HE LEAVES GO BE NIGHTWING ON HIS OWN

“And for all the shit you talk about me

I should think you would be thankful as well

But you just can't seem to let it die”

RATTLES THE BARS OF MY ENCLOSURE

“So we should probably discuss it when I see you in hell

I made a list of the grievances that I never got a chance to air:

I don't like to be lied to

I don't like to be tricked

I don't like to be gaslit

I don't like to be groped

I don't like to be blackmailed

I don't like to be stalked

I don't like to be threatened

I don't like to be trapped

I don't like to be

Pressured pressured pressured pressured

Pressured pressured pressured pressured”

DO YOU SEE THE VISION DO YOU. I SEE THIS AS NIGHTWING POINTING OUT ALL THE SHIT HES HAD TO GO THROUGH WITH FROM VILLAINS FROM A YOUNG AGE. LIKE A MONTAGE OF ALL THE LIFE THREATENING SITUATIONS HES BEEN IN