Illusion

Trying to express myself through a song lyric, Nobody Knows Me by Madonna.

No ones telling you how to live your lifeBut it's a setup until you're fed upThis world is not so kindPeople trap your mindIt's so hard to findSomeone to admire

No ones telling you how to live your lifeBut it's a setup until you're fed upIt's no good when you're misunderstoodBut why should I care?What the world thinks of meWon't let a strangerGive me a social disease
From her perspective it seems like she is talking as a famous person and people only know her public persona and automatically assume certain things about her. For me what the song is saying is that the world puts a lot of demands on people and how it expects people to behave. She is saying I don’t want your social disease, this idea that everyone has to be a certain way. That what everyone is saying to you or in the media is a bunch of lies. People trap your mind, it’s a set up until you’re fed up. No one’s telling you how to live your life, but it’s a set up. No one is going to tell you how to live your life one way or the other, good or bad. It’s a setup – meaning it is all set up that you have to live your life in a certain way because that is how it is done, how everyone else does it. People trap your mind with this ideal and it is hard to find someone who is not in that trap, not living the lie. Once you are fed up, you stop living your life according to that ideal and then it all goes to shit. You are misunderstood and the damage is done. It is an illusion but you don’t know it until you have gone through it and out the other side. It is about standing up and saying that you are living your life on your own terms and you won’t let anyone give you that social disease of having to live your life in that certain way. Once you realize the illusion you can see that that life is now dead and you are moving on to another life – closer to the light/sky.