Heat Waves

The speaker is caught in recurring thoughts about someone they still love. The mood shifts between longing and painful acceptance: they wish they could make the other person happy, but admit they cannot provide the life that person needs. Letting go seems necessary, even though the speaker fears loneliness and feels hurt too.

The “heat waves” make the road appear to shimmer, like water that is not really there. This image suggests how intense emotion or memory can distort what the speaker sees and believes. “Faking me out” means misleading or creating a false impression; here, the heat’s illusion may echo the speaker’s difficulty accepting the relationship’s reality. Seeing “our reflections” on a screen also suggests that ordinary images bring the relationship back to mind.

The song leaves some uncertainty about what has ended and how final the goodbye is. The speaker says the other person may be better with someone new, yet keeps returning to thoughts of them and wonders what they dream about. This tension can be read as a struggle between caring enough to release someone and not being ready to stop missing them. The lyrics do not present letting go as easy or complete.