I spent my first month in an incubator (possibly not the proper nomenclature). Was really trying to believe in something for a while. I used to pretend I believed in god to see how it felt. This chorus though. Give me your realist pain that you live with. The song craves the promise of something more while still being stubborn and stuck. Anytime I cheers now I do so to the unexamined life. You spend 9 months trying to get out and the rest of your life trying to get back in. What a joke. I get what I was doing but when I heard Gillian’s Orphan Girl I realized someone had been there first.
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