From the album Nectar
This is a song about the moment you realize you are chasing someone who already left. Joji is not fighting to win her back. He is cataloging the damage and accepting that both of them are running, just in opposite directions.
I fell for your magic, I tasted your skin / And though this is tragic, at least I found the end
Joji frames the relationship as something he consumed, something that got under his skin physically before it wrecked him emotionally. The line about finding the end is not relief. It is resignation dressed up as clarity.
I witnessed your madness, you shed light on my sins / And if we share in this sadness, then where have you been?
He is calling out the imbalance. She exposed his flaws, but when the sadness hit, she disappeared. The question is not rhetorical. He genuinely does not know where she went while he was drowning.
I know you're not in love, like you used to be / Guess I'm not the one, like you used to think / So you just run
Joji uses 'like you used to' twice to make it sting. She did love him once. She did think he was the one. Past tense does the heavy lifting here. The accusation in 'you just run' is soft but pointed.
You bathe in your victory / You blew out all my fuse / And if I took on the planet / Will I pay my dues?
The imagery gets uglier. She is soaking in what she did to him. The planet line feels like him wondering if any amount of effort would have mattered, or if this was always going to end with him burned out.
And I travel the country just to get to you / I know you're not in love
He repeats the traveling line because it is the most pathetic truth in the song. He went everywhere for her. She is not in love. The repetition makes it sound like he is trying to convince himself to stop.
The song does not end with closure. It ends with Joji repeating that she is not in love, like he is testing how many times he has to say it before it stops hurting. It will not stop.