You can live your whole life in your brain and not experience what's around you. You go crazy that way. That's why I have to watch myself when I get … - Fiona Apple

How can I ask anyone to love me
when all I do is beg to be left alone?

You could say, more accurately, I had found my voice but I had forgotten that I found it, or I had found my voice but stopped hearing it for a while. I think that happens throughout life. That is maybe why you can write songs about yourself for ever because you cycle through the same things over and over but you’re seeing it a little more clearly every time.

But then the dove of hope began its downward slope
And I believed for a moment that my chances
Were approaching to be grabbed
But as it came down near, so did a weary tear
I thought it was a bird, but it was just a paper bag.