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DEFINITELY NOT LOVE

⚠️ TRIGGER WARNING – SET LIST SIX (6)
Set List Six centers on romantic collapse, emotional betrayal, psychological erosion, grief, and identity fatigue. The harm here is quiet rather than explosive. There is no spectacle — only the long aftermath of love deteriorating, unresolved conversations, and the cumulative damage people inflict when intimacy corrodes instead of heals.

This set may be deeply affecting for listeners who have experienced emotional abandonment, manipulative or imbalanced relationships, depression, numbness, grief following breakups or death, lingering guilt, or the fear of starting over too late. While no explicit violence or sexual assault is present, several tracks explore emotional coercion, identity disintegration, and despair adjacent to suicidal ideation.

ROMANTIC DISSOLUTION & EMOTIONAL BETRAYAL
Most of this set documents the slow collapse of intimate relationships. Songs such as “Expired,” “Cry Me a River,” “Nothing at All,” “Heartstrings,” “Endless Chorus,” and “Jewelry Box” linger in the aftermath — when love has died but attachment remains. Themes of waiting, pleading, sleeplessness, and emotional erosion recur, reflecting drawn-out separations rather than explosive endings.

“Face to Face” introduces deception and fixation, including boundary-crossing behavior such as waiting outside a partner’s home. While not violent, the implied surveillance may be unsettling for listeners sensitive to control or relational intrusion.

DEPRESSION, NUMBNESS & SELF-DOUBT
Tracks like “Below Zero,” “Half Told,” “Lament,” and “Endless Chorus” confront emotional shutdown and loss of identity. Lyrics describe numbness replacing pain, persistent rumination, insomnia, shame, and fear of the past resurfacing. “Below Zero” is particularly bleak, approaching emotional self-erasure without explicit self-harm.

EMOTIONAL IMBALANCE & IDENTITY EROSION
Songs such as “Heartstrings,” “Matches to Burn,” and “Nameless” explore relationships defined by emotional exploitation, invalidation, and power imbalance. Identity suppression, comparison, and diminished self-worth recur, particularly in depictions of being valued only for validation rather than humanity.

GRIEF, AVOIDANCE & FRAGILE HOPE
Alcohol appears as emotional anesthesia rather than celebration. Grief surfaces both through death and emotional abandonment, emphasizing loss without closure. Hope exists across the set, but it is fragile, conditional, and unresolved.

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Set List Six captures what lingers after love fails — grief without spectacle, pain without permission, and healing not yet begun.

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DEFINITELY NOT LOVE
SET LIST SIX (6)
1 Expired (beginning part)
2 Face To Face
3 Cry Me a River
4 Nothing At All
5 Matches To Burn
6 Heart Strings
7 Endless Chorus
8 Nameless
9 Below Zero
10 Lament
11 He Said She Said
12 Half Told
13 Jewelry Box

(1) EXPIRED
I am hoping it's not true
But our time may have expired
Sure I still sing for you
But lacking passion, lacking fire

Or at least not like I used to
I won't lie I'm not a liar
My eyes still like looking at you
Oh -- but now I closed them 
when I get tired

(2) FACE TO FACE
You can run and you can hide
But I know your face 
It always shows
That you can’t lie…

So I don’t call you
On the phone
And now you know
The reason why…

I read your letters
So full of love
You tell me I’m the one
That you’re thinking of

Yet I know your gift
When it comes to the pen
As I think to myself
You’re at it again

One line leads to another line
One lie leads to another lie
I know all the walls
You use to hide behind -
It’s true

So I wait outside your place
To meet and greet you face-to-face
So I know whether to cry or laugh
When I look back 
at all those paragraphs –
From you

As I think back to all 
the things you’ve said
For I long to know 
what’s really inside your head

What you’re thinking to yourself 
and also about me
When you say that destiny 
is what we were meant to be

Together and forever 
for it was written in the stars
Yes, this is the true you 
and this is what you really are

Or whether this is just another plot 
and I am just your toy
Am I really your man 
or just a silly little boy?

(3) CRY ME A RIVER
Cry me a river...
Ten miles wide
Your warm tears will never
Send a shiver...
Up and down my spine

Cry me a river...
Then let me know
when you are through
Of everything that
you promised
Nothing was delivered
When you don't feel as if you're one
Then you should go back to being two

Cry me a river...
And then please won't you paddle away?
I've grown tired of sitting in the dark
Watching the clock
Trying to smile all the while...
I'm waiting for you

I would have put you first
If you put me anywhere but last
Yet as our time in life is slipping
Such time you lose too fast

The time for chasing rainbows
Is now as distant as the stars
Through the mountains you've traversed
You have discovered who you are

You bruise when you bleed
Accept this fact as fate
You know now what you need
For him it's now too late

You would have put him first
If he put you anywhere but last
But as you toasted to the New Year
Broken shattered glass

You would have shown him love
Had he given you a wink
You would have filled his cup with wine
Had he asked you for a drink

To the sparkling gleam in his eye
You've since become blind
Now this is all you can think of
Whenever he enters your mind:

Cry me a river...
Ten miles wide
Your warm tears will never again
send a shiver...
Up and down my spine

Cry me a river...
And then let me know
when you are through
Of everything that was once promised
Nothing was delivered
When you don't feel as if you're one
then you should go back to being two

(4) NOTHING AT ALL
You walked up to me
With my clothes in your hands
We had a conversation about things
Only I could understand

Not a tear I did see
For I kept my eyes closed
The way in which I feel
I'm the only one who knows

You begged and pleaded from your knees
Every other word I heard was please
Please don't you go away
Please, please
Don't you leave me this way

Only I knew that our fate was sealed
I kept my eyes closed
So that nothing was revealed

Someday all your wounds will heal
Someday I will tell you 
how I really feel...

I once asked you 
to save me from myself
Though soon I learned
That you can't leave that up
To anyone else

I asked you to change your ways
Though soon I realized
That some colors won't fade

The only one to help me is myself
For sometimes some things
Cannot be entrusted to someone else

Your inspiration was once my soul
But soon your hatred was for me
And the love I stole

You thought I'd take your heart
And keep it forever
But in this world of uncertainty
You can never say never

So many red-eyed days
So many nights filled with unrest
I was finally forced to realize
This may be too great a test

So many sleepless nights
And soon daydreams of another's face
I knew I couldn't stay
While wishing I was in some other place

Your heart's filled with gold
Yet your eyes are so cold
And the mirror which you hold
Reflects the face of no one at all

Your weakness often showed
And soon the time grew old
As no dream I had was too bold
The ceiling of our love was bound to fall

No regrets
Though memory will not soon forget
Myself I found
Now there are no more chains
To hold me down

There must be some reason
That it turned out this way
But I know right now
There's not one that I could say

I loved you once
And you will find love again
There is no better message
That I can send

Maybe I shouldn't have made you
Feel so tall
Maybe all your problems I couldn't solve
Sleep well knowing I am sorry
For the pain I've caused
Just know it's better feeling pain
Than feeling nothing at all

(5) MATCHES TO BURN
I need a reason to sing
I can’t think of anything
And I’ve been thinking a lot
About a world not filled
With things you could see
But of all those things
I dreamed to be
So long ago that I forgot

When down memory lane…
I took a stroll
I re-lived mostly pain…
and now that pain…
It takes its toll

I’ll make a promise to you
And then I won’t show
Yeah, I’ll always leave you guessing
With your insides now exposed

While you’ve still yet to learn your lesson
Ahh… but at least now you’re feeling the cold
Though still… you keep on pressing
But with this new insight you now behold

You see the sun now glistening 
off of the snow
If you listen closely 
then you’ll learn what I know
It takes ten seconds now to see
What took me twenty years to learn

Ain’t no paper worth nothing to me
To a girl… With matches to burn
To a girl... with matches to burn..

(6) HEARTSTRINGS
I don't need you for inspiration
Nah, I got plenty of that myself
I'm not looking
for someone to save me
Nah, you can't leave that
to anyone else

I was just looking for someone
to keep me and love me
For all I am....
for my better or worse

I wasn't looking for someone
to take me and leave me
Leaving me feeling this angry,
helpless remorse

As I see you sitting in the chair
Staring back at me
With a cold and lonely stare
I will remember for eternity

I finally want back
What's been taken
What you stole
But I will never get that
‘til I regain control

I am just another trophy
Collecting dust
on your mantle shelf

Something that you've taken
That once belonged
to someone else

Now as I feel forsaken
I criticize my useless self
Plucking at my heartstrings
Is the music you play
only for yourself

Never a thought
for someone else

(7) ENDLESS CHORUS
I'm as deep as the day is long
That's why it hurt me
To find myself becoming weak
When I needed to be strong

This long day and my long face
Shows you that I know no other way
So it's back to bed with a worried head
An unsteady mind and too much time

I think too much about the past
Of broken trust and how things don't last

I'm as deep as the day is long
That's why I rarely sleep
And I only dream in song
Then I wake up
And I try to play along

To the melody
That my heart weeps
Since you and me
We broke our bond

I find your ghost
Keeps haunting me
With rattling chains
And shaking keys
I try to hide
But to no avail
Just an endless chorus
About how we failed…

(8) NAMELESS
You blew out my candle 
Just so yours could burn brighter
You took my little girl 
And put bad things inside her

Thoughts of not being good enough
Oh how could she measure up
In this morality fashion show
That makes the rules up as they go

Living in the shadows 
and staying low key
Blending in with all 
the pretty things she sees

It won’t make you famous 
but it will help you stay alive
Sometimes remaining nameless 
is the reason why we thrive

You blew out my candle 
Just so yours could burn brighter
You burdened me with heavy load
Just so you could tread lighter

You laughed, pointed and sneered
When I took the wheel and steered
And as I wandered far off course
You offered no form of support

No helping hand to lend
Not a guiding message sent
Left abandoned on the shore
When not thought useful anymore

You kept looking at me
To see the star I’d never be 
But did you question if your perception
Was in fact reality?

You blew out my candle 
Just so yours could burn brighter
When I offered peace or war
You declared, “Neither!”

We’re locked in a state of paradox
Where the focus has been lost
Always scheming or else screaming 
Trying to get your point across

There’s no more words?
I’m at a loss…

(9) BELOW ZERO
My past is trashed 
Burned all the photographs
I sigh then deny when someone asks

No, I never met my hero
On a scale of one to ten
She sent me to below zero

I’ve lost all hope of healing
So I try to numb the feeling
Playing dumb my way of dealing
But I still can’t turn the page

She was a century ahead of her time
And I was five years past my prime
So what could have been so sublime
Instead I lost my guide – my sage

The old me 
would lose to the new me
Yet those tired eyes 
would see right through me
I’ve got a past 
that simply won’t let go
To a flame that burned out long ago

I once put my faith in someone else
Now today I no longer trust myself

You see I lost my nerve, 
my heart and my rightful place 
That’s when I felt 
I didn’t deserve to be part 
of the human race

She gave me a chance to become a man
After an epic fail… 
Well here I am

May God strike me dead 
Right where I now stand…
Yeah, I’m finally ready to get hurt again

(10) LAMENT
You can’t burn what’s already been burned
I died inside once that’s when I learned
Something is gone I can’t put it in words
I’ve been far more reserved – afraid to be hurt

I think it’s contagious
Are you on the same page, kid?

Tell me your story
Share with me your pain
How far was your fall from glory?
And tell me what was her name?

As the life left his eyes
He whispered “Adellana Marie”
Then muttered her last name…
At least what it used to be

The same fire that warms 
May do you great harm 
The many times I was warned 
I claimed false alarm

She hurt me by giving up
I hurt myself I loved too much

We both were harmed 
Though void of intent
I heard cries of a mom
And so off I went

Soon she found another 
A far more tragic event
He put himself above her
And now she’s left to lament

(11) HE SAID SHE SAID
She woke up this morning
In a place she’d never seen before
She said…

I’m ready to turn the page 
but first I must close some doors
I thought that maybe I was learning 
but now I’m not so sure

I said, “You’ve got to hold on”
She said, “I’m not that strong”
“That’s okay” is what I respond
She said, “But I’m not where I belong…
I took a right… But my right went wrong”

I said in time 
you’ll find if you keep on trying
You can hurdle your mind 
and leave it all behind
I can’t weather this storm
I can’t see the sunshine
The last words 
I heard from you was that…
All sense of hope was fading fast

But what you forget
Is that I cry, too
Unclench your fists and remember this
Given time all things must pass
Now I’ve found the rhyme
Have you found a reason?

Killing time it ‘tis the season
A bottle of wine can be so pleasing
I’m feeling fine now my minds at ease

She woke up this morning
In a place she’s never been before
She said…

I’m ready to turn the page
But first I must close some doors
I thought that maybe
I was learning 
but now I’m not so sure

I said, You’ve got to hold on
You say…
I’m not that strong

That’s okay is what I respond
She said…

But I’m not where I belong
I took a right 
but my right went wrong

I said in time you’ll find 
if you keep on trying
You can hurdle your mind 
and leave it all behind
You can weather the storm…

Maybe I can weather this storm
You can find your sunshine…
Maybe I’ll watch the sunrise

She woke up this morning
Or should I say this afternoon
Had she finally broken free?
I can’t tell it’s far too soon
She thought about the
Bridge she’s been burning
Her only way of escape
From this land of ruin
She said…

Well I’ve been burning bridges
But it’s better than burning crosses
When everyone seems suspicious
You start adding up your losses
End up breaking more than dishes
That’s how this whole thing got started
So choose wisely for what you’re wishing
I said try not to make things hard, kid

(12) HALF TOLD
Behind my eyes I can’t let you in
The best I can do is begin again
I let you down and myself to
With all the shit I put you through

Been having a hard time 
holding my head up high
Been having a hard time 
sorting truth from lies

I’m not sure where 
I should go from here
I don’t know if it shows 
but I’m f*cking scared
Seems like everyone I know 
has disappeared… 
through the years

I’ve been looking for something new
And I don’t know what to do
I’ve been seeking to make changes
Having thoughts that are the strangest

I’ve been hiding from my demons
While pretending I don’t see them
Yet I feel their presence creeping
Around my room when I am sleeping

And I find it quite disturbing
More than a little bit unnerving
When you’re trying to go straight 
but keep on swerving
And before it’s too late 
the lesson you are learning

Is you can’t go back and change the past
It catches up with you living fast

As shiny gold turns to rusty bronze
You have to ask yourself where’d I go wrong?
As you trace back the last twenty years
Wondering how on earth did I end up here?

Yet you’re unsure of whether to laugh or cry
Though you’re not tired you close your eyes…
You feel a tear and you don’t know why?
So with retrospect you gaze inside

Never been alone – not with pain and fear
Your travelling companions through the years…
Yet you’re scared of some 
of the past seeds you’ve sowed
So your conscious carries such a heavy load…

I’ve grown tired of these escapades
I’m trying to take back the day
The hands of time can’t be rewound
But I refuse to stay sorrow bound

They say everybody’s got a story
A fall from grace or shining in glory
As of now the tale’s only half told
And my fate awaits 
just up open the road, yeah!

(13) JEWELRY BOX
I'm not an underachiever
More what you call 
a late bloomer
Took me a long time
to become a believer
Otherwise I'd have been here 
a whole lot sooner

I heard it said that 
I was past my prime
But now I know 
it was just a rumor
Such harsh words have 
strengthened me over time
Good thing I still have 
a sense of humor

When I said "take it 
or leave it..." she left it
Never cared about money...
but she cost me time
Ring's in the jewelry box...
I don't regret it
Replacements for me...
I'm sure they're waiting in line

Sacrifices had to be made...
but I'm at peace
You only live once...
I'm back to chasing my dream
After what we both held inside 
had been released
Gave her half of everything...
but my self-esteem

When I said "take it 
or leave it..." she left it
Never cared about money...
but she cost me time
Ring's in the jewelry box... 
I don't regret it
Replacements for me...
she's got them waiting in line

Sacrifices had to be made...
but I'm at peace
You only live once...
I'm back to chasing my dream
After what we both held inside 
had been released
Gave her half of everything...
but my self-esteem

I heard it said that 
I was past my prime
But now I know 
it was just a rumor
Such harsh words have 
strengthened me over time
Good thing I still have 
a sense of humor

I'm not an underachiever
More what you call 
a late bloomer
Took me a long time 
to become a believer
Otherwise we'd have been 
here a whole lot sooner

When differences 
in opinions increased
And they soon become 
known to be extreme
As you find you own what 
really should only 
have been leased
Yes, opposites attract 
yet it's best to 
share common themes

Sacrifices had to be made....
But I'm at peace
You only live once...
I'm back to chasing my dream

SET LIST SIX (6)
relationships hurt
A study in emotional aftermath—the slow fade, the sudden break, the quiet devastation of loving someone who couldn't love you back. These songs live in the spaces between what was said and what was meant, between the promise and the letdown.
Heartbreak & Betrayal, Emotional Aftermath, Unrequited Love, The Weight of Goodbye
(1) Expired
(2) Face To Face
(3) Cry Me a River
(4) Nothing At All
(5) Matches To Burn
(6) Heart Strings
(7) Endless Chorus
(8) Nameless
(9) Below Zero
(10) Lament
(11) He Said She Said
(12) Half Told
(13) Jewelry Box

Set List 6 — Definitely Not Love

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Set List 6 — Definitely Not Love

Lead Rating: PG-13

Total Points: 26

Strategic Arc: Romantic collapse, emotional betrayal, psychological erosion.

Trigger Warning: Romantic collapse, emotional betrayal, psychological erosion, grief, identity fatigue, emotional coercion.

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Song
Rating
Musician/Artist
Four-Word Summary

1
Expired
PG-13
Time has finally faded

2
Face To Face
PG-13
Meeting truth directly

3
Cry Me a River
PG-13
Warm tears, cold heart

4
Nothing At All
PG-13
Empty promises, no delivery

5
Matches To Burn
PG-13
Igniting the final bridge

6
Heart Strings
PG-13
Pulling until they snap

7
Endless Chorus
PG-13
Repeating the same pain

8
Nameless
PG-13
Losing identity in love

9
Below Zero
PG-13
Freezing out the past

10
Lament
PG-13
Mourning what is gone

11
He Said She Said
PG-13
Echoes of unresolved talk

12
Half Told
PG-13
Stories left without end

13
Jewelry Box
PG-13
Promise contained

Collection Summary: A set about what lingers after love fails — grief without spectacle, pain without permission, and healing not yet begun. These songs document the slow collapse of intimate relationships.

Artist Comparison: Damien Rice, Elliott Smith, Leonard Cohen

Key Themes: Romantic collapse, emotional betrayal, grief, identity fatigue, numbness
