This song about the toxic masculinity and the stereotypes surrounding men. "Call me sad but how would you ever know?" "Maybe I'll be brave, but just not today" implies the force of what men are taught at a young age. Men don't cry or anything like that. "Pretend I'm dead so you can go on living" implies to be emotionless. Like how traditional "men" should be. Because emotion is seen as a feminine trait. So asking what it means to be a man and desiring for that, is why.

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