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this is a song about being trans and pissed lol

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No thank you, I don't want to talk, I just want to reflect
On how compliant silence has come to be what you expect
Oh, you say my rage
Takes up too much space
It's too ugly for someone so young
So why don't you
Rewrite the tune
So you wring out the light from my lungs
And cut out my still-moving tongue
And wear it around your neck?

I've been battling demons that live under cover of skin
They strangle my larynx and block all the hairs from my chin
Oh, I've heard it said
In the books I read
That they look for the space between scars
Those weaker spots
That dash and dot
On my body like fleshy pink stars
They beckon like doors left ajar
That's how they find their way in

The boy in your bed fell asleep with your name on his lips
Nowadays you seem only to meet in the nighttime like passing ships
Oh, you wore him out
With lurching doubt
A seasickness to which he is prone
So he'll steer ashore
Where he'll sleep no more,
Save for passing out drunken and stoned
It's better than being alone
Sometimes, he makes himself sick

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released June 22, 2015

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