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After the release of the official music video, dodie shared on Instagram:

when I wrote Human, I was so excited to get to know someone deeply. I wanted to be the special, emotional human to break their shell and share the gooey real shit underneath together. And it was perfect for that time and it can still exist there, as a song about deep connection and fascination, a capsule of something beautiful.

But obviously life is complex, and time moves on. Looking back on this song, the lyrics mean something different to me now. I see desperation, obsession, codependency.
“this night just can’t end”, and “tell me you can’t bear a room that I’m not in”. And yet; the two have a deep message that connects them so strongly; it’s just human. Human to want, to love, to lose. To know that it is human is to forgive. (It’s fun to develop old art, recraft into something new, a scrapbook of feelings. It forever reminds me that every feeling, good or bad, has a purpose.)

I thought that the inspiration for this song was me falling in love at the time of writing it. I thought I was writing all of these sentences to sum up how it feels to want to be needed by someone, and looking back, I think my lines kind of come across more co-dependent than a mutual experience of love, so that’s that.