“Copy Paste” is a bittersweet confession about mirroring someone you love to get closer to their world. The narrator trails through the other person’s favorite streets, adopts their habits, and even learns their secret hideouts, hoping that by copying every detail she can understand their pain and make them feel less alone. It is a tender yet risky kind of empathy: the more she imitates, the deeper she slips into the shadows of the other’s “heart in pieces,” until she loses herself inside their silence.
Years pass and they drift apart, but the magnetic pull of those copied footsteps never vanishes. Dreams keep replaying the borrowed routines, and the memory of carefully crafted phrases still echoes, refusing to be forgotten. The song captures that haunting mixture of devotion, self-erasure, and lingering attachment that remains when you pour yourself into someone else’s life only to find that, in the end, you cannot quite save them—or yourself.