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Hands
05:28
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I watched your mother die, 1995. She sleeps like Hemingway, you'll go like Sylvia and I will die like Elliott Smith, even if I don't like him. I, I just want his hands.
And I thought about who I was then: All the songs that I wrote when I was 17 and how they led to the Virgin Mary, and how she led to David Foster Wallace. His hands- it takes some courage to take your own life into your hands. I want the courage, I want to end it. I want my head stuck in the oven. I want a knife and I want a shotgun, so I can be your object of desire.
Because it gets pathetic when you cannot end it. I want the courage, I want to end it.
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Take Your Life Back
01:54
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I was raped at 15, it took five years to say that confidently. Told myself I'd never be worth it, or that I was a product of a social justice machine.
But when I take this song over to Dan's house, we'll put some drums behind the things we don't like. He won't like this song because it gets so boring shouting my story for money and attention. But I like money and attention, it makes up for the dignity I lost. So if it sounds like I am a vain human being, well maybe you're right, but goddamn I am true. And no one can ever take that from you. Yes, not even "you" can take that from me.
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Personality Disorders New York
Songs to fall asleep to.
Bedroom recordings; May 2013-January 2016.
Personality Disorders recommends:
You in the Heart of Everyone
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If you enjoyed PD, you might like my current project that picks up where PD left off. Fear Not Ourselves Alone is a band about everything you've never said outloud.
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