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Behave
Metadata
- title
- Behave
- meaning
- FEiN co-write: commanded loyalty, behave and suffer only for you, fuck the others, then do whatever when I leave the room: please understand, this is better for me.
- year
- 2019
- release
- Behave
- releaseType
- single
- artist
- FEiN
- artistId
- #fein
- coWriters
- Brandon Michael Woodward
- credits
- Written by Luke Francis Walton and Brandon Michael Woodward (FEiN). Mixed and mastered by Frank Rosato.
- spotify
- https://open.spotify.com/artist/4LJfnGBABdrlnlVpiM2qvW
- themes
- FEiN
- control
- relationships
- theatrical pop
- isrc
- QZ2QB1900003
- isrcSource
- soundexchange
- draft
- false
Lyrics
Tell me when to leave Tell me where to go I'll never hear Tell me when she hurts Tell me everything you think I should hear Please understand, this is better for me Behave only for you I'll leave the others, leave the others, leave the others, fuck 'em Behave and suffer only for you Then do whatever, do whatever when I leave the room Teach me how to be Teach me everything I'll never know Lead me to the water though I only drink when she tells me no Please understand, this is better for me Behave only for you I'll leave the others, leave the others, leave the others, fuck 'em Behave and suffer only for you Then do whatever, do whatever when I leave the room
Content
FEiN single (2019), co-written by Luke Francis Walton and Brandon Michael Woodward. Mixed and mastered by Frank Rosato (same engineer as Little Homes). Not on the 2016 LP; later-era FEiN, same duo.
Instructions you can't follow, deafness to the script admitted upfront (tell me where to go / I'll never hear), jealousy run as a curated information diet (tell me when she hurts). The refrain is the line abusers and self-abandoners both use: please understand, this is better for me. Said twice, no irony tagged, which makes it scarier.
The chorus is the title contract, public devotion and private permission at once: behave and suffer only for you / then do whatever, do whatever when I leave the room. The second verse only deepens the submission, basic need filtered through control: lead me to the water though I only drink when she tells me no. FEiN theatrical pop treating a bad dynamic as a singalong, the Little Homes social-satire muscle applied to intimacy instead of suburbia. Pairs with 800,000 (apocalyptic love exit) as the other 2019 FEiN single on this site.