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Don't Need You

from Fictional Life by Izzy and the Chimera

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This song is about battling internalized oppressions, and my internal monologue about gender identity.

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There are so many things
I need to unlearn
About the way I thought
the world worked

I want to delete every piece
of information I thought I knew
I want to undo
everything that hurts

I wanna be happy for once
I wanna be proud of myself
I wanna happy for once
Not worried about anybody else
I want to be proud of who I am
Not worried about what I’ll have to do
And I need to teach myself I don’t need you

I don’t need to be thin to be pretty
and I don’t need to love a man
to make myself a real grrl
cuz that’s already what I am

And feminine doesn’t mean small and weak
it means beautiful and strong
I guess if I think on it hard enough
I knew that all along

But I wanna be happy for once
I wanna be proud of myself
I wanna happy for once
Not worried about anybody else
I want to be proud of who I am
Not worried about what I’ll have to do
And I need to teach myself I don’t need you

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from Fictional Life, released August 13, 2015

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

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