Secrets — Summary

You tell me nothing's wrong But I see right through that lie You say "go away" and "it's private" hoping I don't know what's going on But I know, what it's all about. You pretend that nothing goes wrong, trying not to hurt me, but I know, and it hurts. It kills me inside, makes me feel useless to you, if not a toy. Yet I pretend that nothing's wrong, I carry on my normal life. I say nothing's wrong, and you can't see through my wall I keep my secrets, and it's getting worse I need to talk to someone, but they're never there They have told me their secret, and I need to talk to them about mine. And you're a part of it I might be able to fix it some day, but you never talk to me. You say it's your ugly side, but I know all about it, I could help, but all you do is shut me out. I know about your problems, I really want to help. But you won't let me in, you lock me out but pretend that I'm in So I just pretend nothing's wrong, and go along. But I need my best friend, my secret keeper, almost my everything at the moment. I don't know what goes on anymore I still smile, pretend nothing is ever wrong. Say I'm always good or great. But I'm really sick to the stomach, tired, lonely, depressed. And one day bye might be for good

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The speaker is caught in a painful standoff with a close friend. Both are hiding something, and each keeps insisting that nothing is wrong. The speaker knows the friend is struggling, wants to help, and keeps getting pushed away with lines like "go away" and "it's private." The friend even seems to treat the speaker as a "toy," which makes the speaker feel useless.

What makes the poem sad is that the speaker is doing the same thing. They put on a smile, say they're "good or great," and hide a wall of their own secrets, even though they badly need someone to talk to. The friend they would normally turn to is the very person who is locked in silence.

The mood is lonely, tense and quietly desperate. The plain, repetitive language, especially the recurring "pretend nothing's wrong," makes the exhaustion easy to feel. The last line, "one day bye might be for good," is a worrying hint that the speaker may be in real danger.

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