From the album Distracted
Thundercat uses Star Wars metaphors to call out someone who has reframed their relationship as good versus evil, with them as hero and him as villain. The song is about refusing that script while admitting he might actually be dark enough to deserve it. He argues with the casting while simultaneously accepting the role.
Guess it's just my job to smile through it all / Don't tell me you're already set sail / In these high winds
He frames himself as the person expected to hold everything together while the other person leaves during the worst possible moment. The storm is not weather. It is whatever breakdown is happening right now, and they are bailing.
I can see you've purchased your paintbrush / Got your canvas and your paint / But how does it feel to know I did it all for you / Just to leave me and to scold me through it all?
The other person is creating their own version of him, artist supplies and all. He knows the painting is not accurate but he also knows it will become the official story. His complaint is not that it is false but that he gave them everything and this is what they made with it.
This monster that you've painted in your mind sounds amazing / Controlling how you feel is not my job / Don't tell me that you have the high ground
The Obi-Wan callback is doing two things at once. He is rejecting the moral hierarchy where they get to be right and he gets to be wrong. But invoking Anakin at all means he knows the darkness accusation is not completely invented. He might actually be the villain here and just does not want to admit it yet.
Just call me Anakin / So afraid of the fate that would have changed it all
This is where the argument collapses. He stops fighting the monster label and accepts it, but with a caveat. Anakin's tragedy was not that he was evil but that he was terrified of loss and that fear destroyed him. Thundercat is saying: yes, I am dark, but only because I was trying so hard not to lose you that I became the thing that made you leave.
Fate that changed it all / It was fate that changed it all
The song ends by handing all responsibility to fate, which is either the saddest cop-out or the only honest conclusion. If it was always going to happen this way, then neither the painting nor his defense of it matters. The relationship was doomed and they both just played their parts.
Thundercat takes a breakup and turns it into a Star Wars trial where he is both the defendant and the one who convicts himself. The genius move is that he knows Anakin becomes Darth Vader, so calling himself Anakin is not a defense. It is an admission that he was always going to become the villain, no matter how hard he tried to stay good. The song is about the moment you realize you are the bad guy in someone else's story and you might actually deserve it.