'Awkward’ navigates the morning-after regret of a situation your extroverted self got you into.

The story behind the song is presented in an edgy and sort of self-aware way but underneath it all it’s really about being unsure, insecure and slightly nervous around someone you’ve just realised you don’t like as much as you thought you would. The same way we often fake confidence in these situations, the punchy and forward instrumentation of this song and the humorous tone of the lyrics is intended to represent the way we like to mask our discomfort with humour.

Sometimes you realise midway through an interaction that you actually really don’t connect with someone and just want to be alone. ‘Awkward’ is about figuring out how to convey that to someone kindly when you really just want to say “you are not what I was expecting”. I feel like we’ve all been in situations before where you convince yourself that it's going to work or even felt like it’s your fault that it isn't, when it really just comes down to incompatibility.

Lyrics

I woke up on Tuesday feeling cold inside my brain
I sent you a message asking if you felt the same
I don't know if I'm hungover
Or just over it all

Am I kind of awkward or do you just hate my smile?
Does that mean you’ll only be here for a little while?
I don’t know if I was sober
When I asked you over

I can’t help
But wish I was sitting by myself
The things I felt
Were just my extroverted self

How do I tell you without telling you directly?
That you’re not what I was expecting

“Honey, who's that boy who came around the other night?
I thought he was handsome and awfully polite
Maybe you should have him round again,
How come I don't meet your friends?”

I can’t help,
But wish I was sitting by myself
The things I felt
Were just my extroverted self

How do I tell you without telling you directly?
That you’re not what I was expecting

I can’t help,
But wish I was sitting by myself
The things I felt
Were just my extroverted self

(I can’t help! But wish I was sitting by myself)
How do I tell you without telling you directly?
(The things I felt! Were just my extroverted self)
That you’re not what I was expecting

That you’re not what I was expecting