Closer Than It Seems (Availability Bias)

A moody, atmospheric pop song where vivid memories and recent images overshadow rationality. The lyrics capture how our minds exaggerate what’s easy to recall — a dramatic headline, a fear, a striking story — while forgetting the countless events that never stood out. The verses are sparse, almost hollow, showing the absence of forgotten data, while the chorus expands hypnotically, looping like a vivid nightmare or flashback. Dreamlike production and floating synths create a cinematic soundscape, as if memories themselves were haunting the track.

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Flashes in my mind,
echoes every time,
can’t escape the stories,
living like they’re mine.
It feels closer than it seems,
like the fire’s chasing me.
Though it’s only in my head,
I replay the words I read.
Oh, the fear becomes the scene…
It feels closer than it seems.
Every image stays inside my eyes,
colors painted bigger than the night.
One event becomes my everything,
turning whispers into thunder when they sing.
I can’t tell the distance,
truth or my resistance.
Memory’s insistence…
shadows my existence.
“Closer… closer than it seems…”
It feels closer than it seems,
like the fire’s chasing me.
Though it’s only in my head,
I replay the words I read.
Oh, the fear becomes the scene…
It feels closer than it seems.
Maybe I could breathe again,
if I don’t believe the lens.
Not every spark becomes a flame,
not every story ends the same.
It feels closer than it seems,
but the truth is in between.
I don’t have to live this way,
I can turn the fear away…
Closer… closer… closer than it seems.