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This song is about change, mortality, and discovering yourself.

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Sitting in a cafe in Argyle Square
Staring out the window, painfully aware
of the very real possibility that I might fail
End up sitting on the streets or end up sitting in a jail

I can’t ignore the possibility that I might die
At any given moment, but it just makes me try
Harder and harder to make it on my own
Cuz I know deep in my heart that I’m never going home

Standing on a corner in the heart of downtown
Singing for change as the sky crashes down
And nobody seems to notice me but that’s really ok
I have my guitar and my sad songs to play

I often think of how I’d like to die
on a stage singing songs or on a street at night
running from your past as fast as you can
can turn a broken kid into a broken man

The city never sleeps and neither do I
our hearts beat as one in the middle of the night
The streets are my neurons the rivers my veins
A piece of a puzzle just riding the train

And I often wonder why my friends die
Far too young far before their time
The world may forget you but I never will
Your memory sits upon my windowsill

And I often think of how I’d like to die
on a stage singing songs or on a street at night
running from your past as fast as you can
can turn a broken kid into a broken man

running from your past as fast as you can
can turn a broken kid into a broken man

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from Fictional Life, released August 13, 2015

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Izzy and the Chimera Portland, Oregon

DIY folk-pop made by a disabled Jewish nonbinary trans girl in Portland, Oregon.

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